“Paris, the FedEx deliveryman of Pleasure and Fatality.”
“Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief.”
“And why couldn’t someone just FedEx him Urien’s head?”
“I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gay capital [Paris].”
“Why Paris? Paris needs no reason. Paris is its own reason.”
“To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!”