“The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered.”

“Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.”

“Fanny! You are killing me!""No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.”

“Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.”

“Above the stage was a glass-floored second stage, which allowed customers to look up and watch another girl dancing overhead. This multidimensional display of poontang reminded me of the 3-D chessboard on Star Trek, which in turn reminded me that I was a huge nerd.”

“She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs.”