QUOTE : You know she'll probably be at the party tonight? Which is why I'm absolutely not going if we don't get some coke.'<br />'Egon, why is it that every single time you're obliged to be in the same room with one of your ex-girlfriends you have to make it into a huge emergency? It's incredibly boring.'<br />'Come on. You know how it is. You catch sight of an old flame and get this breathless <br />animal prickle like a fox in a room with a hound. And then all night you have to seem carefree and successful and elated, which is a pretence that for some reason you feel no choice but to maintain even though you know they're better qualified than anyone else <br />in the world to detect immediately that you're really the same hapless cunt as ever.'<br />'That's adolescent. The fact that you are so neurotic about your past lovers makes it both fortunate and predictable that you have so few of them. It's one of those elegant self-regulating systems that one so often finds in nature.