Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life

- You know, sometimes I wonder... - What? - Well... if I hadn't been Fox Books and you hadn't been The Shop Around the Corner, and you and I had just, well, met... - I know. - Yeah. I would have asked for your number, and I wouldn't have been able to wait twenty-four hours before calling you and saying, "Hey, how about... oh, how about some coffee or, you know, drinks or dinner or a movie... for as long as we both shall live?". And you and I would have never been at war. And the only thing we'd fight about would be which video to rent on a Saturday night. - Well, who fights about that? - Well, some people. Not us. - We would never. - If only.

I'm 22 years old - that's almost 30, and I still haven't accepted that this is my life. And I just wish that I could be dumb. And then I wouldn't know better and I could be happy and stop hoping. And I'm telling you this like you're interested in my boring life.

There are times when it is necessary to abandon our humanity to save humanity.

- We can make you comfortable. - What? Hook me up to the morphine drip, let me fade on out? Nah. Sorry, lady, but I prefer to die with my boots on.

- I was really going to be somebody by the time I was 23. - Honey, all you have to be by the time you're 23 is yourself. - I don't know who that is anymore. - I do. And we all love her. I love her. She breaks my heart again and again, but I love her.

There's not a lot that I am good at. But I'm good at getting guys to want me. Not date me, or marry me, but want me.