- Guilietta Cameron: You make me feel like being honest. And honest women have lonely nights. I don't want to be honest.
- Argus Dlavolos: I heard you were in Miami. How was it?
- Guilietta Cameron: Very warm. Lots of oranges.
- Argus Dlavolos: [glances down at Guillietta's chest] I like oranges myself. Not to eat, you understand. Just to look at.
- Guilietta Cameron: [Nick Stratton sizing her up and down in her low cut evening dress] Well, leave something on me. I might catch cold.
- Nick Stratton: Hey, don't you ever eat at home?
- Guilietta Cameron: Sometimes. Once in awhile. Not very often.
- Nick Stratton: How come there's nothing in the icebox except champagne and - and olives?
- Guilietta Cameron: I like champagne. Anyway, olives are not fattening.
- Nick Stratton: Do you like me?
- Guilietta Cameron: Yeah. And I'm wondering why. Maybe because you don't have gray hair and because you're not bored.
- Nick Stratton: I'm not bored.
- Guilietta Cameron: Everybody I know with money is bored.
- Nick Stratton: Eh-eh, my old man has all the money.
- Argus Dlavolos: Where have you been in the Army all these years?
- Nick Stratton: Building rocket bases. 14 countries in 6 years. Do you know I can make love in 12 languages now. No, really! What are you laughing at?
- Pete Stratton: This is special. 18. Built like this. And her old man's loaded with asphalt. He's up to here in asphalt! Oh, that's some number, that Ringus number. You'll see. A pleasure to look at her. You know
- [puffs out his chest]
- Pete Stratton: up here.
- Yvonne Stratton: I know what men like.
- Pete Stratton: That's enough of that talk. You don't know and you ain't gonna. When you get married, you'll find out.
- Yvonne Stratton: What will I find out when I get married, Father? What?
- Pete Stratton: Well, never mind. After you're married, you'll talk to the boy and the boy will talk to you and - and one thing and another.
- Nick Stratton: Hey, Yvonne, look how pretty you are! And stacked! Hey, you're stacked.
- Pete Stratton: Don't talk dirty on the front porch.
- Yvonne Stratton: Can I kiss you?
- Nick Stratton: Can you kiss me? You better!
- [Yvonne gives Nick a long kiss on his cheek]
- Nick Stratton: Hey Mom, you must be feeding her well. She's really stacked.
- Pete Stratton: I seen the way you talk to them. With your eyes rollin' around like a - marbles in a bottle.
- Yvonne Stratton: Papa it's time you knew. You don't get babies from talking to boys. That's not how it's done.
- Pete Stratton: I forbid you to talk dirty in the house! I forbid you talking dirty!
- Guilietta Cameron: Will you stop. Just stop with the questions!
- [sigh]
- Guilietta Cameron: I'm beginning to feel as though we were married. And I didn't like being married.
- Nick Stratton: Alright, alright, alright. I'm sorry.
- Pete Stratton: I always blow cigar smoke down my shirt, but, it don't do any good. You're mother's got a nose for perfume like the army's got radar.
- Guilietta Cameron: I wish I could explain to you. I have a certain kind of life. I don't get involved with men, usually. I like having them around; but, only on a casual basis. And you are not so *casual*. Oh, you bother me!
- Nick Stratton: That makes two of us.
- Guilietta Cameron: Look, leave me alone. I - I - I want to think about it. I don't want any men to become necessary to me.
- Nick Stratton: Why not?
- Guilietta Cameron: Because I don't believe in Santa Claus. Or, love!
- Diana: Well, aren't you going to answer it? I just can't stand a phone that keeps ringing. I always have to know who it is.
- Diana: Come on, Julie. We'll be late for the party.
- Guilietta Cameron: They wait for us. Let them wait. Men with gray hair are very patient.
- Yvonne Stratton: Mind if I give you a passionate kiss?
- Nick Stratton: [mocking his father] Don't talk dirty on the front porch!
- [Yvonne kisses Nick on the lips, smiles, puts a lit cigarette in Nick's mouth]
- Argus Dlavolos: Good evening.
- Yvonne Stratton: Oh, it's you.
- Argus Dlavolos: [sizes up Yvonne with his eyes] You're getting prettier all the time. You know that?
- Yvonne Stratton: Why is it every time you say something nice to me I feel as though I were trapped in the cellar?
- Argus Dlavolos: Fresh kids. That's all I meet these days.
- Guilietta Cameron: [door slams] Is that you Diana, darling? I'm doing my nails. I can't move an inch.
- Nick Stratton: It's not Diana, darling.
- Guilietta Cameron: Oh, it's you.
- Nick Stratton: Oh. Oh, it's me, darling.
- Guilietta Cameron: I don't like drunks in my bedroom.
- Nick Stratton: What do you like in your bedroom, Julie?
- Nick Stratton: Why is it when a woman fools around with her hair or does her toenails, you feel like touching her somewhere? Anywhere.
- Nick Stratton: I tell you, they got a thing going now. It's like a big Ferris wheel. Once you're on it you gotta go around it - at least once. They only thing is, they stop it where you least expect it. And all you can do is look way down there at the earth and wonder when you're going to get back.
- Pete Stratton: If I see a diamond going down the sewer, I shouldn't try to stop it? You're going down the sewer, boy!
- Guilietta Cameron: I want to live on a cloud. A big, big cloud. With nothing to do but - dangle my feet over the edge. And fool myself that I'm completely happy for a change.
- Nick Stratton: I don't want to sit down in your living room. I don't want your living room. It looks like it won't be there tomorrow. Every thing you've got looks that way - very impermanent. As though you moved in 12 minutes ago and you could move out in the next half hour - and not leave a trace! You left your traces on me, all right. Why can't I get you out of my mind?
- Guilietta Cameron: You need a girl, maybe?
- Nick Stratton: Oh, I tried that. Believe me.
- Mary Stratton: You have a woman somewhere? Be kind to her. I'd like to think someone in this family could be kind to women.
- Guilietta Cameron: I don't want to be loved. Or, be in love. Or, have any trouble. That's what love is to me: trouble.
- Nick Stratton: Okay, okay.
- Guilietta Cameron: Leave me alone.
- Nick Stratton: We won't talk about love. Never. Love is trouble. Down with love, Julie.
- Pete Stratton: Half the men in this room are sweatin' blood. Now, get her out of here.
- Nick Stratton: Who?
- Pete Stratton: That broad you're with.
- Mary Stratton: Damn you!
- Pete Stratton: Now, what's the matter with you?
- Mary Stratton: I'm old. That's what's the matter. Old and useless. And I don't know how it happened. You made me feel old.
- Pete Stratton: Oh, no. Not that again. Listen, we're not a couple of kids to go around breathin' heavy and pawin' at each other.
- Pete Stratton: I'll kill him with my bare hands. I'll kill him. The biggest call girl in town at my wedding anniversary.
- Anniversary Party Guest: The dame. Why your boy has...
- Pete Stratton: Don't tell me!
- Party Guest: If my wife finds out...
- Pete Stratton: Well, what about my wife?
- Argus Dlavolos: My wife isn't here.
- Pete Stratton: The days were never long enough for me. Or the nights either. You know that. I've always hated to sleep even. To lay down! Except for a reason. I hate to sleep. And that's what they say dying is. Eternal sleep. It'll ruin my life.
- Guilietta Cameron: Girls like me don't fall in love. Love doesn't mean anything to us. If it did, how could we be what we are then? There isn't anything beautiful about love. You learn that right away. A man is just an animal - with a silly look on his face.
- Pete Stratton: How much does it cost you to be in love with this girl? Love is love. We're talking about rent. There's a dozen men in this room that know that call girl better than you do. Including me, you dumb kid. Fallin' for a hooker...
- Pete Stratton: Look, Doc, it's my wedding anniversary. I got a big party going tonight. Over 200 Greeks all in the same place. You want me to miss out on that?
- Nick Stratton: What do you do for a living? What do you do for a living!
- Guilietta Cameron: You know, don't you? Didn't they tell you the words? Didn't they tell you the words! I sell myself! Is that what you want to know?
- [Nick throws Julie to the ground]
- Guilietta Cameron: Go ahead, I don't care any more.
- Nick Stratton: I'll never get clean again.
- Guilietta Cameron: What bothers you so much? The idea that I've known men before you? Is that it? Or is the idea of your father being one of them? What are you complaining about? I never asked you for anything. I never took anything from you. I only gave to you. You can tell everybody and laugh when you say it, for me it was free. That will make you feel like a man. A high priced woman like that and it cost you nothing. Think of the laugh you will get out of it.
- Nick Stratton: I want to be like the others. I want to have a hard time remembering your name.
- [throws money at Julie]
- Nick Stratton: Give me a sloppy, sentimental kiss.
- [Julie leans down wearing a low cut dress, takes the lit cigarette out of Nick's month, takes a puff, and blows smoke on Nick's lips]
- Pete Stratton: It's the moon. That's what it is. There's something screwed up with the moon or something. Sun spots. Atom bombs. Everybody running around in big circles. Everybody leaving me - like I was a leper or something.
- Pete Stratton: You pack your things, you little tramp. Get out of this house!
- Yvonne Stratton: I'm already packed.
- Guilietta Cameron: I know a lot about guilt. Men in the dark, telling all their secrets, pretending this moment is what they've been searching for all their lives. And the next day you see them somewhere, in a restaurant maybe or a bar someplace. And then you see it in their face - that little flash of guilt. Not knowing whether to say hello or pretend they didn't see you at all. Oh, yes. I know all about that.