“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”

“Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.”

“To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.”

“Learn to drive?""Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.”

“Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.”

“You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.”

“Sibyl, what do you want?I want to live, the Sibyl said, and her voice rang rich and full. I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world a...”

“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that ...”

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”