“MAN: Do you have black and white film posters?BOOKSELLER: Yes, we do. They’re over here.MAN: Do you have any posters of Adolf Hitler?BOOKSELLER: Pardon?MAN: Adolf Hitler.BOOKSELLER: Well, he wasn’t a film star, was he.MAN: Yes, he was. He was American. Jewish, I think...”

“Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr.”

“All those films in which the woman doesn't get her man, those films of yearning unsatisfied, hearts unappeased. You like them; I've liked them too. But I'll tell you what: try belonging body and soul to a man who will never belong to you; see how well you like those films then. "Don't ask for the moon-we have the stars!" ... "Pardon me saying so, but fuck the fucking stars!”

“Do I dare disturb the universe? Yes, I do, I do. I think. Jerry suddenly understood the poster--the solitary man on the beach standing upright and alone and unafraid, poised at the moment of making himself heard and known in the world, the universe.”

“Can a man change the stars?" "Yes William. If he believes enough, a man can do anything!”

“I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler - because George Bush, for one thing, is not as smart as Adolf Hitler.”