- Wynn Albright: I should have expected the rewards afforded from living in Romania to have escaped you.
- Peter the Publisher: Look, if I had a week to live I'd move to Romania because it would seem like a goddamn eternity.
- Wynn Albright: Maraam is the pop-urban princess enlightened to learn she is the Sanskrit lover reciting an ancient Vedic trance.
- CAUSABON: C'mon, Wynn. Can't I come and see an old pal after... what's it been? A decade? I never did get your letters from Vladivostok.
- Wynn Albright: Romania.
- CAUSABON: Oh, it's the cradle of civilization, I'm sure.