- Father: Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we can't - get strong from what we lose, what we miss, what we want and can't have - then we could never get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?
- Multiple Characters: Keep passing the open windows.
- Junior Jones: Hey, listen. Do you know what? When somebody touches you - and you really don't wanna be touched, well that's not really being touched. You still got you inside of you. And nobody's touched you. Not really. You've still got you inside of you. You *believe* that.
- Franny: I don't know.
- Lilly: They're all so scary. They look straight at you, but don't even see you. There's gonna be sex and violence.
- Franny: Let's just say he fell in love with me. Now if that happened, if he fell in love with me, maybe I wouldn't love him any more. Then I'd really get him.
- Ronda Ray: I know what you're thinking. My advice: If you're gonna pull out on somebody, tell them first.
- John: But our dreams escape us however we have imagined them. There's only one thing you can do. Keep passing the open windows.
- [first lines]
- John: Our story begins with another story. It was our favorite story. How mother and father met when they took a summer job at the Hotel New Hampshire. And how Freud arrived with his bear.
- Freud: Some very good advice and here it is. You take every opportunity given to you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities, because one day the opportunities *stop*. You know?
- Father: Pop, I'm worried about the school. Admissions are falling. Standards are falling even more. Money is getting tighter.
- Iowa Bob: Oh, yeah? What do you care about money? You got a great wife, beautiful kids, you got a good job. What do you care if the pay's not that great? Think about it, my boy. You're a lucky man.
- Father: I don't want to be a teacher.
- Iowa Bob: You know what I know about you, my son? You live in the future. You're a daydreamer.
- Father: I want something better.
- Frannie Berry: It's important the first time.
- John: Why?
- Frannie Berry: Because it is. Because it's the first time. It's the one that sticks with you forever.
- Frannie Berry: What did he say?
- John: He's a scum. He talked about your ass, your tits, even your feet.
- Frannie Berry: [snickers] My feet? What did he say about my feet?
- John: Your *ass* is all he cares about.
- Iowa Bob: [drunkenly] When the shit hits the fan at the Hotel New Hampshire... nobody gets blown away,
- Junior Jones: What do you want? You wanna die? You do want to die, don't you? If somebody wants to die, I'll help him. Which one of you wants to die first?
- John: They're raping her!
- Junior Jones: Did you say rape, man?
- Harold Swallow: Yeah, man. Rape, man.
- John: My sister Franny.
- Junior Jones: Your sister? Black arms of the law!
- Sabrina Jones: You could introduce yourself to Miss Tuck's affections by - uh - by offering to take her bags up to her room.
- John: Where are *your* bags?
- Bitty Tuck: You know, you could get a job on television kissing like that. Do it again. I bet you can't. I bet it was beginner's luck.
- [John moves in, dips, kisses]
- Bitty Tuck: Jesus!
- Sabrina Jones: You didn't even *try* to kiss me.
- John: I'm sorry. I haven't gotten into kissing yet.
- Sabrina Jones: Never apologize.
- [John quickly moves in for an aggressive kiss]
- Sabrina Jones: Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. Now, watch the tooth contact. And don't try to ram me with your tongue. Okay?
- John: Okay.
- Junior Jones: Hey, no offense to your sister, man, but - I'm very horny.
- John: Ditto. No offense to yours.
- Frank: The kids will all be fucked up.
- Franny: Who could be more fucked up than the kids at the Dairy School?
- Junior Jones: There's fucked up and - then there's foreign and fucked up.