“When you have been killed as many times as I have, you get used to it.”

“You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.”

“When you've been struck by lightning as many times as I have, you start to expect the worst pretty much all the time.”

“I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.”

“Adrien, people get killed all the time. Since when is it your job to find out what happened to them?""I'm not usually suspected of murdering them.""You have been as long as I've known you.”

“I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression 'killing time.' It's a very crass and breezy expression, when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us.”