“I'm not sentimental. Good riddance.”

“When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.”

“People who think that they are being "exploited" should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people would say: "Good riddance?"”

“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”

“I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!”

“In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.”

“No sentimentality, comrade… The only good human being is a dead one.”

“I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.”

“The sentiment sounded trite, but then didn’t most good sentiments sound trite? It was hard to make goodness – and good people – sound interesting. Yet the good were worthy of note, of course, because they battled and that battle was a great story, whereas the evil were evil because of moral laziness, or weakness, and that was ultimately a dull and uninteresting affair.”

“Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.”