Typhoid and swans—it all comes from the same place.

—THOMAS HARRIS, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

I realized that to make an R all I had to do was first write a P and then draw a line down from its loop. And I was so surprised that I could turn a yellow letter into an orange letter just by adding a line.

—PATRICIA LYNNE DUFFY, AUTHOR OF BLUE CATS AND CHARTREUSE KITTENS: HOW SYNESTHETES COLOR THEIR WORLDS

“I really mean it, Dr. Wolper. I want us to get married.”

“Meli! You still call me ‘Dr. Wolper.’”

“So? What’s that supposed to mean? When I met you, you were Dr. Wolper, and that’s the way I got to know you. So don’t go making any big goddamn deal outta that, too. I’m just a formal-type person. If I were sleeping with the king of France, I’d say, ‘That was very nice sex, Your Highness. Thank you for banging me, Your Majesty.’”

—MELI AND DR. WOLPER, CREATOR

Stop tweeting and texting about your life and just live it!

—LOUIS C.K.

Once is an accident. Twice is coincidence. Three times is an enemy action.

—IAN FLEMING, GOLDFINGER

Witwer: “Let’s not kid ourselves. We are arresting individuals who’ve broken no law.”

Jad: “But they will.”

Fletcher: “The commission of the crime itself is absolute metaphysics. The Precogs see the future. And they’re never wrong.”

Witwer: “But it’s not the future if you stop it. Isn’t that a fundamental paradox?”

Anderton: “Yes, it is.”

—MINORITY REPORT

“You son of a bitch, you moved the cemetery but you left the bodies, didn’t you? You son of a bitch, you left the bodies and you only moved the headstones! You only moved the headstones!”

—POLTERGEIST