"Last year, I exp... I lost... I experienced a loss. I lost... I lost my son. He was just... he went into a hamburger joint and someone came, a hold-up man, and shot him. I can't go to dinner with people. I can't... can't talk to their little boys. You have to stop asking me. I don't want to hurt your feelings, but I'm just not up to this. Do you hear? Every day, I tell myself it's time to be getting over this - I know that people expect it of me. But if anything I'm getting worse. The first year was like a bad dream; I was there at his bedroom door in the morning before I'd remember he wasn't there to be wakened. The second year is real. I've stopped going to his door. I've sometimes let a whole day go by without thinking about him. I believe Sarah thinks I could have prevented what happened somehow - she's so used to my arranging her life. Now I'm far from everyone. I don't have any friends anymore. And everyone looks trivial and foolish, and not related to me."

"I don't think marriage ought to be as common as it is. I really believe it ought to be the exception to the rule. Perfect couples could marry, maybe, but who's a perfect couple?"

"In the Southeast they say that if you want to go to heaven...you have to change planes in Atlanta."

"Amy Wright - Rose Leary"

"William Hurt - Macon Leary"

"Kathleen Turner - Sarah Leary"

"David Ogden Stiers - Porter Leary"

"In turbulent, troubling times, a good marriage can be the one safe place we know we can go. Once we've been to that place, known that peace, we can never forget it."

"Bill Pullman - Julian"

"Geena Davis - Muriel Pritchett"

"Ed Begley - Charles Leary"

"The business traveler should bring only what fits in a carry-on bag. Checking your luggage is asking for trouble. Add several travel-size packets of detergent so you won't fall into the hands of unfamiliar laundries. There are very few necessities in this world which do not come in travel-size packets. One suit is plenty, if you take along travel-size packets of spot remover. The suit should be medium gray. Gray not only hides the dirt but is handy for sudden funerals. Always bring a book as protection against strangers. Magazines don't last, and newspapers from elsewhere remind you you don't belong. But don't take more than one book. It is a common mistake to overestimate one's potential free time, and consequently over-pack. In travel, as in most of life, less is invariably more. And most importantly, never take along anything on your journey so valuable or dear that its loss would devastate you."

"Barbara Hershey - Nora Tilley"

"Seymour Cassel - Cheese"

"John Mahoney - Moe Adams"

"Danny DeVito - Ernest Tilley"

"Jackie Gayle - Sam"

"The Year - 1963. Selling the American Dream is a risky, funny business - you could wind up paying with your wife!"

"The American Dream Changes. The People Who Sell It Don't."

"Bruno Kirby - Mouse"

"Michael Tucker - Bagel (the character he played in "Diner")"

"Richard Dreyfuss - Bill "BB" Babowsky"

"J.T. Walsh - Wing"

"Kelle Kipp - Diane"

"Clement Fowler - Mr. Simmons"

"What they wanted most wasn't on the menu."

"You know what word I'm not comfortable with? Nuance. It's not a real word. Like gesture. Gesture's a real word. With gesture you know where you stand. But nuance? I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong."

"We all know most marriages depend on a firm grasp of football trivia."

"TV customer: [watching a black and white television program in the showroom] Is this show in color, or is there something wrong with the set?"

"Do you ever get the feeling that there's something going on that we don't know about?"

"[to his older brother] It's funny. You know, when I was a little kid I always wanted a brother. I told that to mom once and she said, "You have a brother". I said, "Oh, so that's who the asshole in the other bed is"."

"When you're dating, everything is talking about sex. Where can we do it? Why can't we do it? Are you parents gonna be out so we can do it? Everything is always talkin' about getting sex, and then planning the wedding, all the details. But then, when you get married... it's crazy, I dunno. You can get it whenever you want it. You wake up in the morning and she's there. You come home from work and she's there. So all that sex planning talk is over with. And so is the wedding planning talk, 'cause you're already married. So... ya know I can come down here and we can bullshit the entire night away but I cannot hold a 5 minute conversation with Beth. I mean it's not her fault, I'm not blaming her, she's great... It's just, we got nothing to talk about... But it's good, it's good."

"I'll hit you so hard, I'll kill your whole family."

"If you want to talk, you always have the guys at the diner. You don't need a girl if you wanna talk."

"All I did was I parked the car on a nice lonely road, I looked at her, and I said fuck or fight."

"Kathryn Dowling - Barbara"

"Jessica James - Mrs. Simmons"

"Michael Tucker - Bagel"

"Tim Daly - William 'Billy' Howard"

"Ellen Barkin - Beth Schreiber"

"Kevin Bacon - Timothy Fenwick Jr."

"Steve Guttenberg - Edward 'Eddie' Simmons"

"Suddenly, life was more than french fries, gravy and girls."

"Daniel Stern - Laurence 'Shrevie' Schreiber"

"Mickey Rourke - Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell"

"Colette Blonigan - Carol Heathrow"

"Paul Reiser - Modell"

"Porno fans! It's me, Cherish, and I need your hardcore help!"

"Dear Diary, another day, and it's the same old thing. Every where I go, everything I do just seems to lead to the same dead end: my derrière."