“You know, it is a little known fact that thinking is entirely overrated. The world would be a much better place if we all did a lot less of it”

“Tonight, however, all I can think of is the juxtaposition of destiny and free will, and whether it makes no difference what I do, or all the difference in the world.”

“But I do know that any place where there are six novels by the author of Pride and Prejudice must be a very special sort of heaven.”

“Most of us walk through our daily lives as if we were asleep. We regard not what is before our eyes. We see not how we construct fantasies of our own and others' intentions without having the smallest knowledge of what we, or they, are truly about. We are all imaginists, storytellers if you will, and the pity is that none of us recognizes his sorry state.”

“But see, that's the thing about movies. Nothing is left to the imagination. You read a book, and you see a picture of the characters and the scenes in your mind. You don't have that with a movie. It's all either up there on the screen laid out for you, or it isn't there at all.”

“...and I decide to stop inwardly composing the feminist world court's prosecutorial summation to the jury.”

“I cannot imagine a world in which one can read Jane Austen only once.”