“Keep your treasure to yourself.”

“Always keep your mouth shut with a drunk. You can never win with piss tanks. The most you can hope for is to break even.”

“You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.”

“Society indeed conspires to keep you ball and chained.”

“Do you remember that old TV series, Get Smart? Do you remember at the beginning where Maxwell Smart is walking down the secret corridor and there are all of those doors that open sideways, and upside down and gateways and stuff? I think that everyone keeps a whole bunch of doors just like this between themselves and the world. But when you're in love, all of your doors are open, and all of their doors are open. And you roller-skate down your halls together.”

“You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about yourself.”

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”