- Nat Parker: The fact is, I don't want you to do this. I need you to. I need to make things copacetic between us. I know I've been a terrible father. It's not a thing I can ignore. Sometimes for no particular reason, life falls off and knocks you flat. Slams you so hard against the wind, you think that all your insides are busted. But if you look for something to replace what's broken, if you're luck, you can find it.
- [looks at his son]
- Nat Parker: You're all I have.
- Ritchie Flynn Parker: You know what? You are completely insane. You're gone.
- Nat Parker: Going, going, gone.
- [smiling]
- Ritchie Flynn Parker: You were right. It hurts me to say this, but the only person who really knows me is him. And that scares the hell out of me. Anyway - I don't know, maybe it's too late. But even if you hate me, I want you to know who you're hating.
- Nat Parker: Yeah, shake your head. These are memories. You'll see what it's like when things stop happening on command. Half mast, and I'm not even dead yet.
- Ritchie Flynn Parker: What are you saying--you're impotent?
- Nat Parker: I'm saying I can't get it up most of the time.
- Ritchie Flynn Parker: Since when?
- Nat Parker: Since--it's hard to say. A couple of years, maybe five.
- Ritchie Flynn Parker: Well, have you tried taking those pills?
- Nat Parker: They're junk. They don't work.
- Ritchie Flynn Parker: Where did you buy them off, a fruit truck?
- Nat Parker: What difference does it make? They don't work. I don't work. The clock is ticking. One last frolic is not going to stop that, is it?
- Ritchie Flynn Parker: So, I take it you're not still babysitting?
- Dolores Jones: Why, do you need one?
- Ritchie Flynn Parker: From time to time.
- Ritchie Flynn Parker: Well, maybe you're not my father. But every morning I wake up, I look in the mirror and I feel sick to my stomach because I think I'm turning out to be just like you.