“This could be the start of a beautiful friendship." - Claude Rains to Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca”
“It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with balcony overlooking the town and the harbor; then you sat there and drank until something happened.”
“Pam: "Claude, the mouthwateringly beautiful asshole?”
“Asking Jean-Claude not to be a pain in the ass was like asking rain not to be wet. Why try?”
“When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.”
“As far as I could tell, Claude's benefit to the world was strictly as a decoration.-Sookie”