“I could talk about industrialization and men's fashion all day, but work must intrude.”

“I am an exceptional thief, Mrs. McClane. And since I'm moving up to kidnapping, you should be more polite.”

“When Alexander saw the depth of his empire he wept for there were no more worlds to concquer. Benefits of a classical education.”

“When I got to the States and started going to an American high school, which I did for an extremely short time, I thought everyone around me was insane, the way they talked about their parents. I thought the parents were insane too, the way they handled their kids, like every request they made was a bargain they weren't sure would be kept. That little whiny tone at the end of every statement: "Be home by ten, okay?”

“There are life events that can destroy the personality, which is a lot more fragile than most people imagine, constructed as it is from bits provided by others in the most haphazard way. People can be torn down to the core, "shattered," as the expression goes, and then they seek sleep. And dreams, which provide the ground for the construction of a new and more integrated self. Providing there's a core, and providing they're willing to do the work.”

“It's part of what we call the Shadow, all the dark parts of us we can't face. It's the thing that, if we don't deal with it, eventually poisons our lives.”

“As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.”