More quotes by William Goldman, The Princess Bride

"Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something."
"I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard."
"Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?"
"Now what happens?"asked the man in black. "We face each other as God intended,"Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone.""You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that it?"
"Cynics are simply thwarted romantics."