Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be
feared. They are truly enemies.
"So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy,
a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing
robes, the grace, bald... striking."
"That there's for his orthodonture and his university. Now, you soak his thumb in iodine, you might get by without the orthodonture. Won't knock a
thing off the university."
"Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders
that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself "slightly" killed."
That's Cary Grant in North By Northwest. Hitchcock classic
"My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a
fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he
invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the
insane lament. "
"A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already
dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows
who's gonna come along in that time? Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all effin' night."