- Pippa Lee: [after leaving hospital where her adulterous husband who wanted a divorce has been declared brain-dead, she is sitting in bed with Chris, eating french fries after having climbed through his window] So... it's official, nobody needs me anymore.
- Pippa Lee: What made you lose your faith?
- Chris Nadeau: I just stopped believing God was a mystery you could nail down with one book.
- Chris Nadeau: What are you thinking?
- Pippa Lee: I was just thinking that you seem like...
- Chris Nadeau: What?
- Pippa Lee: ...Just that you seem, you seem so bright.
- Pippa Lee: It's a pity you never settled on any real work. It would make your life so much easier.
- Chris Nadeau: Okay. Well, thank you...
- Pippa Lee: I didn't mean to offend you.
- Chris Nadeau: I suggest that you go back to that little life you've puffed up for yourself. I'm sure you're very happy underneath all that anxiety.
- Pippa Lee: You're right. You know, you... you are an asshole.
- Chris Nadeau: Told you.
- Sam Shapiro: Writers are vampires. I'm waiting for the right girl to come along and make me a human being.
- Pippa Lee: I wonder...
- Chris Nadeau: What?
- Pippa Lee: ...if I got it all wrong with her. I just didn't wanna suffocate her the way my... I think it happens like that in families sometimes that were... You just keep swinging back and forth from generation to generation getting it wrong the opposite way.
- Sam Shapiro: [beginning of film: toasting Herb at dinner party] I have known Pippa Lee for 25 years and I think that I will really ever know her. She is a mystery... an enigma... giving, caring, beautiful, intelligent... the very icon of an artist's wife.
- Sandra Dulles: [Sandra sees Herb on the hospital bed and gets shocked. Explains to Pippa] I had chest pains.