“Fu*k!”“Anytime, darling,” he yelled up to her. “Just get your cute ass back down here and I’ll get straight to work on that.”

“No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.”

“Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them. ”

“It came to him that he didn't like holidays. . . . They bore down on you. Each one always ended up feeling like an exam . . .”

“Lewis: "You looked beautiful tonight. In fact, you get more beautiful every time I see you."Nicky: "I, but I was just wearing-"Lewis: "Say thanks."Nicky: "Okay, thanks, and you looked... muddy.”

“If I hand myself to you, Carly, then you need to be there for me. Don't you get it? You've become my weakness. I'm a big, strong guy but if anything happened to you it would destroy me.”

“The world will give you relief once ina while, a brief time out; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, were somebody dabs mrecy on your beat-up life.”