- Eve: I thought I was through getting involved with men who were trouble. Falling in love on a look.
- Song: Away, away, away.
- Eve: I can't look at you.
- Mickey: You have perfection about you.
- Song: Feels so nice.
- Eve: Oh, brother. Perfection. Me.
- Song: What delight!
- Mickey: Your eyes have music. Your heart's the best part of your body. And when you move, every man, woman and child is forced to watch.
- [last lines]
- Woman on Bus: Marriage is a very sacred thing.
- Eve: Yeah. So I've heard. Marriage is a sacred thing. Isn't it?
- Mickey: In a beautiful but sordid way.
- Eve: I don't know why I ask you anything. You're a lunatic.
- Mickey: That's why you chose me.
- Pearl Antoine: [reciting her own poetry] No matter who I'm with, / They want to know if I'm still sleeping with you. / I say that you sleep while I die a little. / But I'm not afraid of death. / At least you get laid in your coffin.
- [pause]
- Pearl Antoine: You weren't even listening.
- Mickey: You want to get laid.
- Pearl Antoine: It was just a poem.
- Mickey: Just a thought.
- Eve: [on the phone on the air with Dr Nancy love] Sex? Are you kidding? I wrote the book on sex. I'm a prisoner of it. Hell, I'm a victim of it. I know all about that feeling you get in your belly when a man says he wants you, and if I know he's lying, I still get that feeling. I'm conditioned now.
- [first lines]
- Announcer: Stay by your phone, Doctor Nancy Love will be up on KCMY talk radio with The Love Line.
- Nancy: I recommend that you examine the deeper feelings you have for your wife, Tom.
- Pearl Antoine: Yeah, that's what I need, a good job. You wanna know what my favorite job would be, of all time? To be the radio talk lady, Dr Nancy Love. Ever listen to her?
- Mickey: I don't listen to radio talk.
- Pearl Antoine: Well, you should, because she's real smart. I mean, just think, having a job where you talk on the phone all day, and get paid for it. Women trust her, men fantasize about her. What a life! I hear she's tall and blond.
- Zack: [paraphrasing the final line of Goethe's Faust] Also, Herr Mueller. Ewige Weiblichkeit zieht uns hinan.
- [They are discussing Nancy herself, but Mickey does not know this]
- Nancy: Her? Extremely smart. She helps a great deal of people.
- Mickey: Good.
- Nancy: And when there's a price involved, she can help others but - not herself. She gives advice to the lovelorn every day but she's never been in love herself. Or so I've heard.
- Mickey: Rough.
- Nancy: Some people worship her. But can you imagine how hard that must be to live with? Knowing than anything you ever say to anyone will count heavily, be acted upon whether you're right or wrong, I mean there's a tremendous responsibility in that, don't you think? She'd have to - she'd have to live a - a life of secrecy to avoid that kind of pressure, and even then she'd have to be careful of listening to herself, you know? And she must - wonder about - her own life experiences, she must have - difficulty touching life because she gives so much of herself to others, she spends - so much of her time absorbing others.
- Mickey: People really listen to that shit?
- Nancy: Oh yes, they do, believe me. I've heard her show before.
- Nancy: Maybe it's not just, uh, one man, Rita, maybe it's a feeling you have for all men. Sex, like everything else, is largely a mystery, I mean, there's no such thing as normal sex, normal sex is a matter of statistics. What may be normal for the vast majority is no criterion of behavior for the exceptional person.
- Pearl Antoine: But I am exceptional.
- Nancy: [becoming gradually more agitated] Throughout history, individuals of the first rank would never have produced had they not been immersed in sex and spontaneous sexual behavior. I mean that uncontrollable impulse that shakes you to your very foundation, that makes your - nerves ends tickle and that makes your head spin and makes you feel like, like jelly, you may think it's wine, Rita, but it's not, it's blood. And there's nothing wrong with that feeling. We all need to get it, we all need it, there's nothing wrong with IT.
- Pearl Antoine: But I know about all that.
- Announcer: Nancy, stand by for a station break.
- Nancy: I'm sorry, Rita, we're going for, uh, station identification.
- Nancy: From Mickey, I learned that perhaps when a man enters your life through your sex, it might just be as good a way as any. isn't that marvelous? And all along I'm thinking it's the wine! And Eve, seeing how - how you admit that you don't really know him all that well, well I'm - I'm wondering - if we might share him?
- Eve: Are you telling me that Mickey found out where I lived, and that he came here, and that you were home, and that you fucked him?
- Nancy: [nods]
- Eve: [slaps Nancy]
- Nancy: He said you barely knew each other, Eve, you just said that yourself.