- Agnes Chapman: You're a fast worker. I better leave before one of us gets pregnant.
- David Fowler: I'm not that fast.
- Marianna: He really and truly loved - all these women. That could do strange and wonderful things, couldn't it? Well, yes, to me too.
- [first lines]
- Marianna: All these women. They follow him, even to the grave. How is it possible? Well, why not? They loved him very deeply. Each in her own way. Passionately. Kindly. Forever.
- David Fowler: I remember thinking: Oh, Jesus, I'm about to meet the woman with maybe the most beautiful legs in the world. And now I'm not really sure I want to.
- Marianna: Why not?
- David Fowler: Well, what if the top half didn't live up to the bottom half.
- Marianna: He was a most intelligent man. Remarkably intuitive, gentle, almost soulful. And with eyes that saw and caressed with equal intensity.
- David Fowler: There were the most beautiful legs I'd ever seen in my life.
- Marianna: What was so special about them?
- David Fowler: Uh, well, they were - they were *long*, very long. Shapely, obviously. They were athletic too, but not too muscular, you know. And they moved so *gracefully*. Um, they were - they were fantastic! And I just couldn't help myself. I just had to find out who they belonged to. Is that crazy?
- David Fowler: While I'm pursuing them, I'm destroyed by the memory of the women I just left.
- Marianna: Perhaps your adoration of women is only matched by your hunger for a new experience. Consequently, you feel a deepening sense of loss with each new ending.
- David Fowler: Yes.
- Marianna: So when you go forward, you always leave something behind.
- David Fowler: Yes.
- Agnes Chapman: You really think I lied to you, don't you?
- David Fowler: Yeah.
- Agnes Chapman: You really don't believe that I have a cousin with fantastic legs?
- David Fowler: No.
- Agnes Chapman: There's only one way I can convince you. Where's the shower?
- David Fowler: Please don't go. Why did you come?
- Agnes Chapman: I was inquisitive.
- David Fowler: Ah, me too. You know, I saw your legs and I was inquisitive.
- Agnes Chapman: You were *acquisitive*. Sexually, of course.
- David Fowler: Well...
- David Fowler: They're all wonderful. It's so confusing. I start worrying about all the women I'm never gonna know.
- David Fowler: I remember her name. Majesta. And she looked like her name. She walked very fast, so that the potential customers would almost have to chase her to find out if she was really a whore or not. My mother walked very fast.
- David Fowler: I was just thinking how I love watching women. I love the way they walk. I love all the different shapes, the way they move. You know, there's a time when they all disappear. When I first realized that I thought, well, if I can't see them, I won't want them. Wrong! As a matter of fact, what I couldn't see I just wanted all the more. And then, just when it starts to really frustrate me: Spring. And they all come out. In pretty bright dresses and high heels. And I'm, uh, I'm resurrected.
- David Fowler: Darla. Oh, boy. I will be forever grateful to that understanding, generous, older woman. I think Darla was about 18. She was wonderful. Just wonderful. She left me with an enduring appreciation for the women of the street.
- David Fowler: The hookers were out in force. For about a mile, I counted half a hundred. And then for several blocks, nothing. Then I saw her. She looked young, vulnerable, and out of place. Like a little girl wearing her sister's clothes and her mother's makeup. I acted on impulse. I wasn't sure, but at least I wanted another look. She was either not what she appeared, or she devised the ultimate little girl come-on. Or, she was completely inexperienced and just plain scared.
- David Fowler: Why don't you take a hot shower - before you catch your death of cold.
- Nancy: You sound just like my mother.
- David Fowler: Thank God you didn't say I sound like your "father."
- Roy: I brought you a little present. Nice little doggie. Thought we'd name her Simba. She's so tiny, she can break wind, you don't hardly smell nothin'.
- Roy: Come here, I wanna show you somethin'. I had a French architect do this bathroom over for me.
- David Fowler: Well, that's a beautiful Chagall.
- Roy: Is that pretty?
- David Fowler: Oh, yes, that's pretty.
- Roy: Now, I want to show you here is the pisser.
- David Fowler: The Pissarro.
- Roy: No, no, no. That's a Pissarro's over there. I want to show you the pisser. This thing's got a geyser in it.
- Marianna: When did you start smoking again?
- David Fowler: [coughs] This morning. I'm terrified of flying. I mean, well, I mean, I'm not so much terrified of flying as I am terrified of crashing.
- Roy: I'll tell you what. I'll call up ol' Bull Ray and have him order us some chicken-fried steaks and a couple of bottle of Don Pe-rig-non and we'll watch the wrestlin' matches on TV.
- Marianna: What are you thinking?
- David Fowler: I just remembered something that happened to me when I was - eight years old. I just busted into the bathroom one day and my mother was taking a bath.
- Marianna: And how did you feel about that?
- David Fowler: I was embarrassed.
- Marianna: And?
- David Fowler: Aroused.
- Courtney: [in bed] Ahh. Oh. Ah. I was convinced that I was never gonna see you again.
- David Fowler: Yeah. I had a problem. I was in a bad place.
- Courtney: Does this little encounter indicate that said problem's now resolved?
- David Fowler: Well, It's a step in the right direction.
- Courtney: Well, you know what I always say: One step in the right direction always deserves another.
- David Fowler: Is that what you always say?
- Courtney: Where you're concerned, always.
- David Fowler: She was 20 years old, an art major at Pepperdine. We talked about Henry Moore, Lipshitz, and me. We had a wonderful time. She had the most beautiful breasts I've ever seen.
- Marianna: One day, he is a helpless, indecisive impotent child. And the next, he's a liquorice billy goat sniffing the wind for sexual sweat.
- David Fowler: You can always see interesting women at a market. Mostly a variety of housewives. There's no general rule, but according to the food they buy, their shopping attitude, and their sense of direction, you can usually tell the veterans from the rookies. A veteran is organized, purposeful and sticks to a shopping list. A rookie just wanders and improvises. And then there are always a few that you can't categorize at all. Then occasionally, there's one that really - brightens your day.
- David Fowler: Don't you think we should settle down and have children and live in a little 'Leave it to Beaver' house with a white picket fence and everything? Have you seen 'Leave it to Beaver'?
- David Fowler: [in bed with Lulu and Enid, voiceover] I should have known, one divided by two equals one-half. Half a man. Half there. Christ, when will I grow up?
- David Fowler: I found this island with goats and flowers. We just make love, eat the goats, and smell flowers.
- Marianna: Maybe David has seen some great truth in a mirror that's just not accessible to me and it's liberated him.
- Marianna: Your delight in women was so passionate, so generous, that miraculously we were all transformed, molded and sculpted by your love as if we were soft clay bent to your quiet will, and then set firm in the fires of your passion.
- Derby Announcer: [while Lulu leads David into their own horse race] And on the inside, the early leader is Headstrong. But moving up to challenge is Frosty Frenchy and Mother Lode. Then back two-and-a-half lengths from the rail is Tight Squeeze. Regal Hunter drops out of it slightly. Lightning Rod moves up...