“Spend twenty years there and you ask yourself how there can still be strangers with so many familiar faces ... it's probably that cities generate strangers continuously ...”

“On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.”

“Er zijn geheimen die je zelfs aan jezelf niet toegeeft. Zoals er in elk huis plaatsen zijn waar altijd schaduw hangt”

“Wie vecht met de dagen, heeft altijd een pijl op zijn boog”

“I was worried about sex," he went on. "But you know what, Sulie? It's like being told I can't have any caviar for the next couple years. I don't even like caviar. And when you come right down to it, I don't want sex right now. I supposed you punched that into the computer? 'Cut down sex drive, increase euphoria'? Anyway, it finally penetrated my little brain that I was just making trouble for myself, worrying about whether I could get along without something I really didn't want. It's a reflection of what I think other people think I should want.”

“And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of the waters; and the name of the star is called wormwood; and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.”

“You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.”