Quotes from Gatsby:
I love a "cocktail lounge" piano. Outside it drizzles, grey. New York City, enveloped in the light mist. Two lovers have a date to meet at 6 o'clock. At Grand Central Station, under the clock, like in the movie.
I'm going to stay in New York. I need a carbon monoxide to survive. We are two different creatures, right? You like the sound of crickets and I like the rattle of the taxies. You blossom in the sun and me...I come into my own under grey skies.
It's like death. It's like having ...Drinks with a hundred bullshit people, not one of which has ever been turned down by a co-op.
You know my mother. If it's not the perfect image, she bites down that cyanide capsule she keeps for special emergencies.
- Tuscon? You are dating a girl from Arizona?
- Do I have your permission?
- What do you guys talk about, cactuses?
- Rattlesnakes.
Quotes from others:
What I'm saying is that, if I have been to over too far in my pursuit of the finer things and of cultivating an image. If I have caused you some discomfort. It's only an overzealous ex-professional hustler from the mid west, trying to erradicate unsavory remnants of many hotel rooms I still wake up screaming over. And if you can't understand where you get your mysterious urge to consort with a demi-monde. You have my genes.
When he offered to set himself on fire to protest climate change, they should've let him.
- It just happened, Ted. We both fought it.
- I'm sure you fought it, in every hotel room, on every matress, in a backseat.
- This isn't about sex.
- It's always about sex. Everything is about sex. The economies are about sex.
- Two cannibals are eating a comedian and one says: "Hey, do you taste something funny?"
- That is so unfunny.
A homeless man stopped a Jewish mother on the street and said: "Lady, I haven't eaten in 3 days." And she said: "Force yourself".