- Mr. Baker: What did you think was going to happen, Frances? What was your plan?
- Frances Price: My plan was to die before the money ran out. But I kept and keep not dying and - here I am.
- Frances Price: Look, what was done or not done was done or not done for a very good, very real reason.
- Joan: I told Don I had to run to Paris because I thought you might kill yourself. He was fiddling with the remote. He told me, "Tell her hello, if you get there in time."
- Tom: I asked Susan to marry me and it was looking good. Then she gets this early morning telephone call. Since she hung up the phone I've been playing catch up - trying to figure out what she wants. And if I'm not mistaken, she wants - him.
- Mme Reynard: Well?
- Susan: I thought I was happy. I *was* happy. But, then Malcolm called and now I don't know what I'm doing. What am I doing, Malcolm?
- [Malcolm shrugs]
- Susan: I wonder if you could take your head out of your ass for just the *briefest* moment.
- Tom: Wait! It's a complicated situation but I believe we can express our respective points of view while maintaining our dignity.
- Mme Reynard: Bravo.
- Malcolm Price: What happened when you saw me?
- Frances Price: Oh, I've never been so *hurt* by something in my life as when I saw your face for the first time.
- Malcolm Price: Why?
- Frances Price: Because you were your father. Because you were me. Because you were *all* three of us. So ruinous.
- Joan: What about my apartment in Paris? I haven't been there in a year. It's just sitting empty. To get out of New York is the thing, honey. It's sensible.
- Frances Price: Sensible.
- Joan: Sensible.
- Frances Price: Sensible.
- Frances Price: Did you drink to the brink of sound reasoning? Were you driven to insomnia by the violence of your muse?
- Malcolm Price: No.
- Frances Price: Menstruating?
- Frances Price: Your father and I stayed around here in a hotel for our honeymoon.
- Malcolm Price: I can't imagine you two on a honeymoon.
- Frances Price: It was all the normal things. Hotels and the flowers and the champagne. It's strange to think he was actually fun, but in the beginning, he really was.
- Frances Price: It's been decided that we're going to go to Paris.
- Malcolm Price: We are? For how long?
- Frances Price: Oh, difficult to say. Perhaps, for the rest of our lives.
- Mme Reynard: Do you ever feel that you've had adulthood thrust upon you at too young an age and that you're still essentially a child mimicking the behaviors of the grownups all around you so they won't uncover the meagre contents of your heart?
- Customs Agent: What is the purpose of your trip?
- Frances Price: We're vacationists. I want to see the Eiffel Tower, then die.
- Customs Agent: Madame?
- Frances Price: Chasing after youthful fantasies.
- Frances Price: [after observing a dildo in Mme. Reynard's freezer] I've never understood them.
- Malcolm Price: What's to understand?
- Frances Price: Is it something one uses alone or with someone there to - help?
- Malcolm Price: Either or.
- Frances Price: Hmm. But why would you want it cold?
- Malcolm Price: That's the mystery.
- Tom: Before I met Susan I thought I knew what it was to be in love. Said it, meant it. I'd heard it said to me and been so glad to know. But, what were those feelings, compared to this? This is something else. This is - the love poets aspire to.
- Mme Reynard: Are you a poet?
- Tom: I work in finance. There is, I feel, a certain poetry in numbers.
- Julius: What is your relationship to this woman, madame?
- Frances Price: None, whatsoever. My son knows her, though. Carnally.
- Frances Price: I saw a man's penis yesterday. He was pissing in the park opposite the apartment. Have you noticed men simply take them out and use them here. There was no harm in it, I suppose, but, it does take some getting used to. Yesterday's was memorably large. What a gift that must be for a man. What a lottery life is. It was nice to see it, I'll admit.
- Joan: I had a moment earlier this year when I realized when you get older you don't even want love. Not kind we believed in when we were younger. Who has the energy for that? When I think of the way we used to carry on about it.
- Frances Price: Oh, I know.
- Joan: Men and women throwing themselves out of windows. What you want is to know someone's there; but you also want them to leave you alone.
- Mme Reynard: You're lucky.
- Malcolm Price: I've always been lucky.
- Mme Reynard: Have you? I've been neither lucky nor unlucky. I've been luckless.
- Frances Price: I've been incredibly lucky at times and - tragically unlucky at others.
- Madeleine the Medium: I've only been unlucky. But I have a sense that this'll change suddenly and permanently. Anyway, that's what I tell myself.
- Julius: I've only been unlucky - and I believe I will always be.
- [Frances is dragging a knife against another]
- Malcolm Price: Are you cooking?
- Frances Price: No, I just like the sound it makes.
- Mme Reynard: I don't miss them particularly, but I miss the noise they made. That's why I invited you over.
- Frances Price: Ah! You want us to make noise.
- Susan: Would you describe yourself as a coward?
- Malcolm Price: No.
- Susan: How would you describe yourself?
- Malcolm Price: I don't know that I'd bother to in the first place.
- Tom: Wait a minute! What did I win?
- Malcolm Price: Nothing. Everything is exactly the same as it was before.
- Susan: The thing that I can't figure out is whether or not you expect me to wait for you.
- Malcolm Price: Of course, I do. But that wouldn't be very chivalrous of me to ask, would it?
- Susan: Is chivalry an interest of yours?
- [Boris shows bodies to Malcolm]
- Malcolm Price: What happened to them?
- Boris Maurus (Ship's Doctor): Oh, just that they died.
- Malcolm Price: We've been at sea for 3 days!
- Boris Maurus (Ship's Doctor): Two bodies a day. That's the industry standard for an Atlantic crossing.
- Young Malcolm Price: What was jail like?
- Frances Price: Not really very much fun.
- Young Malcolm Price: What was the food like?
- Frances Price: You're getting it.
- [Boris drinks whiskey and passes the flask]
- Malcolm Price: I don't want any.
- Boris Maurus (Ship's Doctor): But you have to.
- Malcolm Price: Why?
- Boris Maurus (Ship's Doctor): Because it's fun! You and me, drinking drinks.
- Mme Reynard: I believe that friendship is a greater force for good than any religion ever was. Don't you agree?