“Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I don’t think that sex is my Muse.”

“Horse-Protestant be damned,” Maurice chuckled, “I am as Irish as the rest of you, but I don’t get to blame someone whenever things don’t go my way.”

“Some good things did come out of France, but the place has become unbearably Gaulish don’t you think?”

“I think you should be grateful to the English, they built this country and made it civil.”

“My mother always said that I would come to a bad end but I never thought she meant this - writing allegory in literal times.”

“Do you really think that one person can be enough for someone?”

“Are you sayin' it's okay to throw yourself at someone for the sake of art but it's not okay to go around bein' nice?”