Hannah and Her Sisters

"[voiceover, about Lee] God, shes beautiful. Shes got the prettiest eyes, and she looks so sexy in that sweater. I just want to be alone with her and hold her and kiss her and tell her how much I love her and take care of her. Stop it, you idiot. Shes your wifes sister. But I cant help it! Im consumed by her. Its been months now. I dream about her. I, I, I think about her at the office. Oh, Lee. [sighing] What am I gonna do? I hear myself mooning over you, and its disgusting. Before, when she squeezed past me in the doorway, and I smelled that perfume on the back of her neck... Jesus, I, I thought I was gonna swoon! Easy. Youre a dignified financial advisor. It doesnt look good for you to swoon."

"Mickeys Father: How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I dont know how the can opener works!"

"For all my education, accomplishments and so-called wisdom, I cant fathom my own heart."

"Millions of books written on every conceivable subject by all these great minds and in the end, none of them knows anything more about the big questions of life than I do ... I read Socrates. This guy knocked off little Greek boys. What the hells he got to teach me? And Nietzsche, with his theory of eternal recurrence. He said that the life we lived were gonna live over again the exact same way for eternity. Great. That means Ill have to sit through the Ice Capades again. Its not worth it. And Freud, another great pessimist. I was in analysis for years and nothing happened. My poor analyst got so frustrated, the guy finally put in a salad bar. Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer."

"A week ago I bought a rifle, I went to the store - I bought a rifle! I was gonna, you know, if they told me I had a tumor, I was gonna kill myself. The only thing that mightve stopped me - mightve - is that my parents would be devastated. I would have to shoot them also, first. And then I have an aunt and uncle - you know - it wouldve been a blood bath."

"Its been ages since I sat in front of the TV, just changing channels to find something. You see the whole culture - Nazis, deodorant salesman, wrestlers, beauty contests, the talk show. Can you imagine the level of a mind that watches wrestling, hmm? But the worst are the fundamentalist preachers, third-rate con men, telling the poor suckers that watch them that they speak for Jesus and to please send in money. Money, money, money! If Jesus came back and saw whats going on in his name, hed never stop throwing up."