“Princes always are always happy to see developing among their subjects the taste for agreeable arts and for superfluities which do not result in the export of money. For quite apart from the fact that with these they nourish that spiritual pettiness so appropriate for servitude, they know very well that all the needs which people give themselves are so many chains binding them. When Alexander wished to keep the Ichthyophagi dependent on him, he forced them to abandon fishing and to nourish themselves on foods common to other people. And no one has been able to subjugate the savages in America, who go around quite naked and live only from what their hunting provides. In fact, what yoke could be imposed on men who have no need of anything?”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Raven: “You don’t have a hot date, do you?”Alexander: “Yes. I do, as a matter of fact.”Raven: “You do?”Alexander: “Yes, and it is almost ending.”— Ellen Schreiber
“Raven: “Don’t you notice that?”Alexander: “Notice what?”Raven: “The girls?”Alexander: “What girls?”Raven: “Hello! You were worried about bringing me to a bar when all along I should have been concerned about bringing you.”Alexander: “I don’t know what you are talking about.”Raven: “The girls are drooling all over you!”Alexander: “Well, there is only one girl I want to be with and she’s right here.”— Ellen Schreiber
“It wasn’t as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did not linger in her mind.”— Victoria Alexander
“Silly of me not to have realized it. One often finds Greek temples lurking in the woods of English estates. Sneaky things, temples.”— Victoria Alexander