"Book - what they make a movie out of for television."

“It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.”

“we live our fate before we realize exactly what it is.”

“You know," he said, "I keep wanting to say that it's like Simon Snow threw up in here... but it's more like someone else ate Simon Snow—like somebody went to an all-you-care-to-eat Simon Snow buffet—and then threw up in here.”

“If you're gonna use me as a stepping stone, you'd better step hard!”

“It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a doll inside our head, the only woman who is always available in fact, the only one we shall ever possess, whom the arbitrary nature of memory, almost as absolute as that of the imagination, may have made as different from the real woman as the real Balbec had been from the Balbec I imagined- a dummy creation that little by little, to our own detriment, we shall force the real woman to resemble.”

“I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington.”

“I'm all about change, and I know things are going to move forward in life, and that's just how it goes.”

“I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.”