“[M]y favorite teacher was explaining that you don't say but however. These are pleonasms: the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. There are times in life that are very but however.”

“Oh, my father sighs, if only we had a screwdriver that could unscrew wrongheaded ideas; if only we had a hammer to drive home good intentions; if only we had a pipe wrench to tighten hearts in everlasting love; a saw that we could use to make a clean cut with the past!”

“If you meet an angel, you will have not peace, but a fever.”

“That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.”

“When I'm in love, I can't stand anyone.”

“[T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out.”

“Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.”