“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is perfect in the same way that The Great Gatsby is perfect.”

“Perfect love casteth out fear, the Bible says; but, to speak it reverently, so does perfect hate.”

“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”

“[Paris, as modern city] is beautiful in its perfection, but perfection means death and decay. Thus interfering with the process of dying is a crime against perfection: it stands in the way of a higher perfection.”

“Society expects trans women to be perfect the way they expect all women to be perfect.”

“And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?”

“The desire to be perfect. Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona—to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.”

“Dreams, Mr. Nyazi, are perfect ideals, complete in themselves. How can you impose them on a constantly changing, imperfect, incomplete reality? You would become a Humbert, destroying the object of your dream; or a Gatsby, destroying yourself.”

“The only thing that separates any one of us from excellence is fear and the opposite of fear is faith. I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for, perfection is God’s business.”

“It made perfect sense, and at the same time nothing seemed to.”