“Love is potent stuff, isn't it?”

“This is the worst stuff on the Internet. There isn't anything worse than this.”

“Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.”

“From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.”

“If your backlog of stuff isn't zero'd regularly, you're hostage to your own incessant angst that you should.”

“Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force … is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security.”

“This isn't romance. This isn't a declaration of love or affirmation of friendship. This is something more.”

“Love isn't a weakness.”

“All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?”

“We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love.”