“- Meg Altman: This whole thing makes me nervous.
- Lydia Lynch: Why?
- Meg Altman: Ever read any Poe?
- Lydia Lynch: No, but I loved her last album!”

Jodie Foster - Meg Altman
Ann Magnuson - Lydia Lynch

“Shakespeare was not meant for taverns... nor for tavern louts.”
Alan Mowbray - Granville Thorndyke

“- Peter Highman: That was William Shakespeare. Have you heard of him?
- Ethan Tremblay: Yes, I've heard of Shakespeare. He was a famous pirate. By the way it’s ‘Shakesbeard’.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Peter Highman
Zach Galifianakis - Ethan Tremblay

- 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

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