Mark Zero quotes:

And I had just kissed my ex-girlfriend, who had cried, while my current girlfriend was in jail. So far, it had not been my best day.

I congratulate you on your success stealing the painting.

... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.

The French have a penchant for absolutism, for thinking that things are all one way or all another, which is why their politics are marked by a general inability to compromise and why they tend to hold their personal opinions until the bitter end, even after they have clearly lost an argument.

How can you be kissing at a time like this? Have you no respect for the dead?