“I don’t need to say aloud what I know you also are beginning to understand, wee one.”

“I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.”

“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it?What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know where it will end.”

“If it’s your song, I don’t need lyrics to know what you’re saying.”

“I’m a one-man show. I need to start a band. You wanna join? Too bad! What about one-man band don’t you understand?”

“Do you understand what I’m offering you?""Do you understand that it’s not 1815?""It’s not unusual for Masters to have Consorts.""Yes, and your current Consort’s in my kitchen right now. If you need . . . relieving, talk to her.""As much as it pains me to say it, Amber isn’t you.""I don’t even know what that means. Should I—What? Be flattered that while you don’t like me, you’re willing to sacrifice just to get into my pants?”