- Eleanor: Stash is a genius, and so of course he's a little eccentric and I'm the type of person who mates for life. You know, like a goose.
- Abby: Are you sure there are no available men in New York?
- Eleanor: There are hundreds of women. They are out on the prowl. And the men are all gay or in the slave class themselves. Your only solution is to get rich - so you can have your own apartment. Then you can have your own slave. He would be poor but amenable.
- Mona: Max and I made these dipping sauces. And I was gonna make the chicken or tell Max to, but then I thought, "Fuck it," and I sent him across the street to Kentucky Fried Chicken. I mean, l figured no one's ever gonna know the difference. What do I have to go to all the trouble for? So I told Max, "Take it out of the box and put it in a napkin in a basket and they'll think we got it at Balducci's." Right?
- Abby: I know Bruce is a jerk, but I thought I'd live with him and then fly up and teach one day a week in Boston and maybe I'd meet somebody l like better than Bruce - in New York.
- Eleanor: Abby, I'm telling you, don't do it. In the old days, marriages were arranged by the parents. And you could end up with a jerk, but you had the security of marriage. No one can dump you out on the street. In today's world, it's a slave system. You live with this guy in New York, you'll be a slave.
- Mrs. Wheeler: That little Daria, she's such a flirt. Sometimes I think, "How did a daughter of mine become such a femme fatale?" And then I realized, she takes after her mother.
- Marley: You collectors are just waiting for me to die. Then you'll have your field day, like with Géricault, Gauguin and...
- Chuck Dade Dolger: Van Gogh!
- Chuck Dade Dolger: You know, tell you the truth, I was never much interested in art... Then one day, at the age of 52, I looked at a painting. It was by accident, more or less, and I couldn't breathe. I thought I was having a heart attack for that one minute. So, one thing led to another and now I got a man in Montana who calls himself an environmental artist, who is moving piles of mud from one part of Montana to another. And I've got me a gal chained to a Korean and a Doberman pinscher, who is videotaping every moment of their year chained together. And it's costing me a bundle. I bought that picture to embarrass my mother. She died last year, age 87. I can laugh about it now.
- Marley: Listen, I can make you more famous than anybody since the Medici.
- B: You. Listen, you go ahead and do what you want. You will anyway. l just wanna say one thing. I'm sick of living in a goddamn city where the women do absolutely nothing to support each other. The men hate women and the women hate women.
- Wilfredo: I got a really great coat for you in the back. Just one problem with it, which is why they're not that popular. It's not fireproof, if you know what I mean. So just stay away from cigarettes when you wear it.
- Marley: Oh, my God, it's you. La Christa, where have you been? You promised to pose for the nude Polaroids on the cross.
- Stash: l don't care if you do have an affair. l just think it's disgusting if you do it at my expense.
- Eleanor: You wouldn't want me once you got to know me. I'm not interesting. l lack social skills. I don't exercise.
- Stash: I traded a painting to Wilfredo Sylvain for a dress for Eleanor.
- Chuck Dade Dolger: Lucky you. What are you gonna get?
- Eleanor: l don't know. Maybe one of those dresses that look like cotton candy.
- Eleanor: l guess it's a terrible thing to say, to say you wanna have a baby. Means I'm a regular person.
- Eleanor: Remind me never to do this again. It would have been easier if I had someone to share the responsibility with - a boyfriend. But I'm starting to think I'll never meet anybody.
- Fritz: Let me tell you something. You don't have to be so desperate.
- Eleanor: Yeah? Well, let me tell *you* something. l was just as desperate when I had a boyfriend.
- Eleanor: I'd like to have a baby. l had a dream about a baby. It was a giant baby with long arms like a chimpanzee, but it was cute.
- Eleanor: Abby, come on out and meet Kyoshi. He's gorgeous, he's humble, he's heterosexual. He's in television.
- Abby: I can't. I'm frightened. I'm the type of guest who likes to lurk in the bathroom.
- Eleanor: You're the only other woman here besides me.
- Abby: What happened to the others?
- Eleanor: l didn't invite them.
- Samantha: Listen, I have to do something with myself. Two months, I didn't touch any drugs at all. Two months, I was completely clean. Then this afternoon, I found myself in a taxi on my way to my dealer. Man, that's New York for you.
- Eleanor: I design hats, and they were in a show and they were a big success, so I had to drink too much. I'm not used to being a success. l hate value judgments. It makes me nervous.
- Chuck Dade Dolger: What's this supposed to be?
- Marley: It's a party of beauty. It's a big get-together of all the beautiful people: Venus of Milo, Aphrodite, Hebe, the Graces, Cupid, Apollo, Hyperion, Narcissus.
- Chuck Dade Dolger: Well, I don't care for it much, but that small one in her office.
- Marley: Oh, you mean "Geoffrey Chaucer's First Date."
- Chuck Dade Dolger: That painting displays as fine a representation of a pair of ladies' breasts as I have ever seen. Do you use a live model?
- Marley: Dirty magazines.