“I take my hat off to you — or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders.”
“Are you asking if I ever spied on you while you were taking a shower?”
“To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again.”
“What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.”
“I want a shower the size of the Sydney Opera House, because you know damn well I sing in the shower. And I might as well make millions off my cleanliness.”
“I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me.”