Puff Quotes in Human Nature (2001)

Puff: I'm an ape, mother. Apes don't drop lines.

Puff: Words are evil. Are they not evil, these words we use? Hmm? Does anyone know the definition of simultagnosia? I meant to look it up before Lila saved me.

Nathan Bronfman: The inability to perceive elements as a component of a whole.

Puff: Thank you, thank you. My pleasure. Don't mention it. Good to see you again. Stop!

Puff: Mother...

Puff's Mother: Yes, Derek?

Puff: It's a pleasure to meet you mother, but I'm an ape, like dad was, and I have to go back into the woods now... forever.

Puff: Apes don't assasinate their presidents, gentlemen!

Puff: Words are evil!

Puff: [... ] There is indeed a Paradise Lost. Human beings have become so enamored of their intellectual prowess that they forgot to look to the Earth as a teacher. This is hubris, my friends!

[first lines]

Lila Jute: I'm *not* sorry.

Puff: I *am* sorry.

Nathan Bronfman: I don't even know what sorry means anymore.

Puff: My name is Puff. I am a perfect gentleman.

[last lines]

Gabrielle: You remind me so much of Nathan.

Puff: Like father, like son.

Gabrielle: Plus, so much of my little mongrel doggy.

Puff: woof! Let's go eat, I'm starving.

Gabrielle: French?

Puff: Yes.

[talking about Rice Weedon]

Puff: You killed him.

Virgil Tibbs: Look, let's get the record straight. He started that shoot out.

Puff: Well, you bastard, you killed the wrong man he didn't do it!

Rice Weedon: Woah, Lieutenant! Always a pleasure. Now, Lieutenant Tibbs, that is Puff.

Virgil Tibbs: Always a pleasure.

Puff: Which is it, army, navy, or airforce?

Virgil Tibbs: Homicide.

Puff: Ah, do tell. But you're not fuzzy fuzz, are you?

Puff: Have a shot of sixteen year old bourbon, $12.95 a fifth? That's the attraction here.

Virgil Tibbs: Thanks. Soda.

Rice Weedon: Puff is the most amusing little chick this side of the morgue.

Puff: But I love him. He beats me.

Virgil Tibbs: You picked the right man, Puff. He's big. He owns three fire traps over at the Potrero section and inspectors don't bother him. Nobody bothers him.

Puff: He doesn't love you, Honey. Even with that $12.95 taste in his mouth. I wonder why.

Virgil Tibbs: We found your fingerprints in there, Whedon.

Rice Weedon: You can find my fingerprints all over this building.

Puff: He's a very friendly landlord.