- Wanda Wilcox: I can't stand people, I hate them.
- Henry: Oh yeah?
- Wanda Wilcox: Do you hate them?
- Henry: No, but I seem to feel better when they're not around.
- Henry: This is a world where everybody's gotta do something. Y'know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody's gotta do something, they gotta be something. You know, a dentist, a glider pilot, a narc, a janitor, a preacher, all that.
- Henry: [sighs] Sometimes I just get tired of thinking of all the things that I don't wanna do. All the things that I don't wanna be. Places I don't wanna go, like India, like getting my teeth cleaned. Save the whale, all that, I don't understand that.
- Jim: You're not supposed to think about it. I think the whole trick is, not to think about it.
- Henry: [voice over] And as my hands drop the last desperate pen, in some cheap room, they will find me there and never know my name, my meaning, nor the treasure of my escape.
- Henry: That's it.
- Wanda Wilcox: That's what?
- Henry: I'm broke. Can't buy another drink.
- Wanda Wilcox: You mean you don't have any money?
- Henry: No money, no job, no rent. Hey, I'm back to normal.
- Tully: Why did you send your stuff to us?
- Henry: Well, I liked the title of the mag. It boggled my scrotum.
- Tully: Why don't you stop drinking? Anybody can be a drunk.
- Henry: Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.
- Henry: [screaming] Why did it have to be Eddie? He symbolizes everything that *disgusts* me.
- Wanda Wilcox: [quietly] What.
- Henry: Obviousness. Unoriginal macho energy. Ladies man...
- Wanda Wilcox: You're right. He's not much.
- Old Fart: Now look. Twenty bucks for that kind of head is outrageous.
- Grandma Moses: I did ya good, old fart. I did ya good. I oughta bit your champagne cork off.
- Old Fart: I'm givin' ya fifteen bucks.
- Grandma Moses: Twenty bucks. Nobody in this neighborhood can swallow paste like I can.
- Wanda Wilcox: I made an error, an unhappy error. But, *I* drink. When I drink, I move in a wrong direction.
- Wanda Wilcox: [talking about the rumor that her neighbor killed people] Maybe he had a reason to kill those people.
- Henry: Yeah well most people think they do.
- Henry: [to his own bloody face as reflected in the bathroom mirror] Nothing but the dripping sink. Empty bottle. Euphoria. Youth fenced in, stabbed and shaved. Taut words propped up to die
- Henry: I remember ordering a draft, barkeep. What, are you out of brew, or has that lobotomy finally taken hold?
- Henry: I sure want to thank you for your hospitality.
- Wanda Wilcox: Just one thing. I don't ever wanna fall in love. I don't wanna go through that. I can't.
- Henry: Hey, don't worry. Nobody's ever loved me yet.
- Henry: I'm gonna ask you the same damn thing, people are always asking me?
- Wanda Wilcox: Like?
- Henry: Like what do you do?
- Wanda Wilcox: I drink.
- Henry: The first thing I noticed about you were your legs.
- Wanda Wilcox: Really? I guess I got lucky with legs. It's the brain I was shorted on.
- [Wanda pulls up her robe to expose her entire legs while she lies on the couch]
- Henry: Oh. Oh, yeah. Hey. I could look at a woman's legs for hours.
- Wanda Wilcox: I've got nothin' but time.
- Henry: Hey, you don't believe in that crap, do you?
- Wanda Wilcox: Sure. The more crap you believe in, the more better off you are.
- Eddie: All right, I'm givin' three to one odds. I'll have this fag lickin' my balls inside of five minutes.
- Jack, the Window Washer: My God, there's nothin' left of it. She's like a vacuum cleaner!
- Grandma Moses: Twenty bucks, Jack.
- Wanda Wilcox: How did your face get so beat up?
- Henry: You don't mind, do you?
- Wanda Wilcox: I think it looks beautiful.
- Henry: Do you think I'm crazy?
- Wanda Wilcox: What's crazy? I dunno. We're all in some kind of hell. And the madhouses are the only places where people *know* - they're in hell.
- Wanda Wilcox: You're the damndest barfly I've ever seen. You act like some real blue blood, like royalty.
- Henry: Oh. Oh, I wasn't aware of that. Thank you. Yeah, I noticed you're class too, baby.