“Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.”

“A kiss may not be the truth but it is what we wish were true.”L.A. Story (1991) – Harris Telemacher (Steve Martin)”

“My fear represented the failure of the human system. It is a sad truth of our creation: Something is amiss in our design, there are loose ends of our psychology that are simply not wrapped up. My fears were the dirty secrets of evolution. They were not provided for, and I was forced to construct elaborate temples to house them.”

“I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.”

“The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack for causing heartbreak was innate, but her vitality often made people forgive her romantic misdeeds.”

“She started converting objects of beauty into objects of value.”

“...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.”