"Doors are for people with no imagination"

"Keats is conscious of not being tall. At one dismal gathering he heard someone say, ‘O, he is quite the little Poet.’ Insufferable. ‘You see what it is to be under six foot and not a Lord.’

"Sybil: [after having sex] I love being a woman, not because of you but because of me.

"Her father said: ‘It’s no good, my legs are broken and I can’t fish anymore. The well is dry, the field is dust, the donkeys are skin and bone but you my child are young and strong… You can get us food.

"As children we dream of flying but the dream gradually fades and we float back down to earth, weighed down by life. Here's to those who never came back down.

"GEORGE: It's a goat in a pram. CHRIS: But this one has a motor. GEORGE: So, it's a motor goat. CHRIS: If you will."

"JAY: ..Love is not eternity. Love is now. And now, and now, and now, every beat of my heart; and yes it may be a disasterous relationship, it may be the first in a string of disasterous bloated corpses of sex and love that will stretch across the massacre of my life.. But it’ll be true, Sall, and it’ll be true because.. I love you. ... [Every eye is on him. Sally doesn’t move. He is seized by the Invigilator and a SECURITY GUY and walked out. Silence.]

"Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.