“Nuts are very healthy. And anyway, you're more important than me.”

“If you're gonna buy me a present, don't spend more than twenty five bucks, you'll get a blowjob anyway.”

“…the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing them to others. It was thought more important to look healthy than to be healthy, and more important to seem bold and daring than to be so. This view of morality, since it is physiologically based on the special vanity peculiar to men, is perhaps the supreme male view of morality.”

“The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur, carry more weight than those of the healthy. Then, too, all healthy people will in the future know disease. That sense of time, ah, the diseased man’s sense of time, what treasure hidden in a desert cave. Then, too the diseased truly bite, whereas the healthy pretend to bite but really only snap at the air. Then, too, then, too, then, too.”

“I really should be studying now, but you're much more important to me than a .50 calibre machine gun.”

“Is it more important to understand than to obey? Is it more important to me to know than to believe?”