“Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.”

“Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.”

“Such a small thing to cause so much trouble.”

“It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.”

“Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.”

“Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. It's our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. Of all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated.”

“And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts.”

“We need to the right thing. Take this seriously, not to verbalize about it, and not to talk.”

“How much does that guy make a year? It would be to our advantage if we paid him off for five years to get away from us in the rest of this series.”

“The trouble about the Académie is that by the time they get around to electing us to a seat, we really need a bed.”