“The earl could have made Napoleon comfortable in a room sporting a guillotine.”

“Am I a fool, Lilly?''Yes,' she said simply.”

“I wouldn't hit a girl, but i'd beat a bitches ass!”

“Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?”

“Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his answer was probably one of the loveliest things ever said about punctuation. "This particular comma," Thurber explained, "was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up.”

“Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in the blink of an eye. Some days matter, and others don't.”

“You think too much and I bet it kills the magic," he says simply. "Some things are just instinct and if you try and replace that with thinking they die. You can read and think as much as you want before and after, but in the moment, man, you have to, like, let go.”