Cecily and Ishmaël, on marriage.

Cecily: I may still have to get married.

Ishmaël: You know I’ll run for it.

Cecily: Run from it is my suggestion.

Ishmaël: Why would you fill my heart with disillusion?

Cecily: The butterfly drinks its own nectar my dear. I fill it not. Drink only from lovely flowers, and you shall be saved from your disillusionment.

Ishmaël: What a poet thou art, Cecily Shelley Keats Tennyson.

Cecily: Egad! I already have too many last names to get married.

Two friends, on art.

Cecily: Your art always has a peace to it. This seems at odds with your mental state at times.

Arnaud: My states of mind are the consequence of the gap between what I would like the world to be – peaceful, intelligent, etc. – and what it is in actuality.

Two friends, on an orchestra.

Cecily: Yves went to inform his music teacher that he’s staying in Paris so he can be with me forever, instead of joining the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Charles: You have a responsibility to the global art world. Just drug him and put him on the Eurostar.