"all that went away... all of it... with Curt. And not even the real Curt, I mean, it was this idea of Curt more that anything this uh... this... image. Which, of course, no one could ever possibly live up to, I mean, Maxwell Demon, Curt Wild, they were fictions."
-Mandy to Arthur in '84

"I just wanted to say that I think your music is tops, really, smashing, best of the lot."
-Brian's first words to Curt