"I'm not afraid of death... I am afraid of murder"

Saint-Cyr, French military school

"Tell me, what's your zip code baby?"

"Did you ever let a cowboy sit on your lap?"

"Whitman we have called our greatest voice because he gave us hope. Melville is the truer man."

"He lived intensely his people's wrong, their guilt. But he remembered the first dream. The White Whale is more accurate than Leaves of Grass. Because it is America, all of her space, the malice, the root."

"Kertész? I've never heard of him."

"Really, I like anything that has the Eiffel Tower in it."

"The moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture"

"Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?"

"It was rugged and naïve, it was heaven."

"Because I don't feel safe til I get the lights on."

"Criticism is easy; art is difficult."

"Then he saw hanging conspicuously on the wall"

"... which was otherwise already empty, the picture of the woman dressed in nothing but fur. He quickly scurried up over it and pressed himself against the glass which held it in place and which made his hot abdomen feel good. At least this picture, which Gregor at the moment completely concealed, surely no one would now take away."

"Don't ever tell anybody anything."

"If you do, you start missing everybody."

“(as they boasted) they were become the greater number"

"... they had shaken off their shackles of servitude and were become masters and masterless people."

"Le clericalisme, voilà l'ennemi!"

"The vices of servitude are less hateful than those of tyranny."

"Once you look for someone, you never find him."

"I ain't crazy. Jus' mad."

"Quelle est votre plus grande ambition dans la vie?"

"De venir immortel, et puis, mourir."

"The Spaniard may prove just as cruel as the savages of America."