“A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.”

“A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.”

“If only, I thought, I could talk to Eugene just one more time. This was before I came to understand that you cannot make someone fall in love with you But here's what you can do. By arguing and pleading and screaming and crying and throwing plates and phoning a lot and bringing hot food and sending flowers and buying gifts and doing unsolicited favors and remembering a birthday and being nice and declaring your abiding love and trying hard or sometimes merely by being present, you can make someone who was hitherto lukewarm really detest you.”

“Room service? Send up a larger room."[A Night at the Opera]”

“Just because you're bron to someone, it doesn't mean you belong to them.”

“To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?”

“The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.”