“I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress.”

“The yeehaw explanation is we're too busy chasing meat'n'pussy.”

“Simultaneously (in the inner voice of a female American cultural studies professor): Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.”

“I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception.”

“I'm still bothered.You're French. If you lot stopped bothering the coffee and tobacco industries would collapse.”

“I'm supposed to be guilty of all sorts of crimes and misdemeanors, but when you get right down to it, I'm really only guilty of one: wondering. The road to Hell, you say, is paved with good intentions. Charming. But actually it's paved with intriguing questions. You want to know. Man do you want to know.”

“When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.”