"Listen Delly, I know it doesn't make much sense when you're sixteen. Don't worry. When you get to be forty, it isn't …"

"You told me fairy tales... About Malone... Billy Danreuther... The President getting shot... Your erect nipples!"

"[as Harry confronts her at her poolside, after Delly's death] So I'm not grief-stricken. What does that make me? [dru…"

"When we're all as free as Delly there'll be rioting in the streets."

"Joey Ziegler: He'd fuck a woodpile on the chance there was a snake in it."

"Joey Ziegler: Well, the world is getting smaller, the kids are getting younger and I'm getting drunk!"

"Marv Ellman: There's nothing like having a mother and a daughter. Gives you sort of a kind of perspective."

"What private eye Harry Moseby doesn't know about the girl he's looking for... just might get him killed."

"Gene Hackman - Harry Moseby"

"Jennifer Warren - Paula"