Manhattan

[to Yale and Emily Pollack and Tracy] Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.

She's 17. I'm 42, and she's 17. I'm older than her father, can you believe that? I'm dating a girl, wherein, I can beat up her father.

[to Tracy] I think that people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics.

You rely too much on the brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.

I can't express anger. That's my problem. I internalize everything. I just grow a tumor instead.

[to Yale Pollack] What are you telling me, that you're, you're, you're gonna leave Emily, is this true? And, and run away with the, the, the winner of the Zelda Fitzgerald emotional maturity award?

[to Yale Pollack] You shouldn't ask me for advice. When it comes to relationships with women, I'm the winner of the August Strindberg Award.

[to Mary Wilke] I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion.

[to Mary Wilke] You know a lot of geniuses, y'know. You should meet some stupid people once in a while, y'know, you could learn something.

[to Isaac Davis] It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.

[to Isaac Davis] Not everybody gets corrupted. You've got to have faith in people.