- Chaz: Hi, what're you reading?
- Nan: Milton's "Paradise Lost", for Professor Russo's course in English epic. You know, it's a shame; it's a dying form.
- Chaz: Dying...
- Nan: Not too many people read it nowadays, even in college.
Clayton Rohner - Chaz
Leah Pinsent - Nan

“- Col. Mathieu: What were they saying in Paris yesterday?
- Journalist: Nothing. Sartre's written another article.
- Col. Mathieu: Will you kindly explain to me why the Sartres are always born on the other side?
- Journalist: So you like Sartre, Colonel?
- Col. Mathieu: Not really, but I like him even less as an adversary.”
Jean Martin - Col. Mathieu

“Shakespeare was not meant for taverns... nor for tavern louts.”
Alan Mowbray - Granville Thorndyke

“Only the early Fitzgerald was great, then came an orgy of brutal realism.”
Jean Rougeul - Carini

“Hamlet was made for Freud. Not you.”
Constance Towers - Cathy