“You got up off the bathroom floor. That’s a start. Now, just stay off the floor. After all—aside from winning the lottery—all any of us can ever really hope for is more days spent standing tall than spent in pieces on the floor.”

“My idea of vacuuming is borrowing someone's dog for the day and having them eat all the crap off the floor.”

“I’m staying here tonight. I can bunk on the floor. (Nathan)What if I say no? (Terri)I’ll just break in after you go to sleep and still bunk on the floor. (Nathan)”

“That’sthe kind of dress that belongs on the floor, all wrinkled up, with the zipper broken and the sleeves torn.That dress isn’t right for you at all. In fact, I think you should take it off right now.”

“I have never known anyone with less money and less visible means of getting hold of it. He had slept around everywhere, from the floors of friends’ studios, to the Metro. There were days when he had literally no money at all, and after a string of such days he would go to the blood bank and sell his blood. More often than not he spent this money on tickets to the ballet.”

“The skeleton is just a way to keep your tissue off the floor.”