- Chaz: Hi, what're you reading?
- Nan: Milton's "Paradise Lost", for Professor Russo's course in English epic. You know, it's a shame; it's a dying form.
- Chaz: Dying...
- Nan: Not too many people read it nowadays, even in college.
Clayton Rohner - Chaz
Leah Pinsent - Nan

“- Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.
- Scripps: No.
- Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.”
Dominic Cooper - Dankin
Jamie Parker - Scripps

It takes Shakespeare, a genius, to come up with "He dies". And yet every time I read those two words, I find myself overwhelmed with dysphoria. And I know it's only natural to be sad, but not because of the words "He dies". but because of the life we saw prior to the words.

Dustin Hoffman - Mr. Edward Magorium

“- Michael: I'm getting tired of everything I write being read in the can.
- Harold: You can read Dostoyevsky in the can.
- Michael: Yes, but they can't finish it.”
Jeff Goldblum - Michael
Kevin Kline - Harold

In the novel you are supposed to read by monday "The Sorrows of Young Werther" Goethe through his art reveals not only the ecstasy of romantic love but also the doomed consequences that necessarily follow.
James Toback - Leo Boscovitch