“You stick with the Virgin Mary, and remember, if you fuck it up again, you're back to Italy doing another romance novel.”
David Schwimmer - Max Abbitt

“- Peggy Sue: We had one glorious night together, someday you'll remember and write about it.
- Michael Fitzsimmons: Yeah, I can dig that. Bittersweet perfection. Dogs of lust on leashes of memory.”
Kathleen Turner - Peggy Sue
Kevin J. O'Connor - Michael Fitzsimmons

“- Young Celie Harris: Write!
- Nettie Harris: What?
- Young Celie Harris: Write!
- Nettie Harris: Nothing but death can keep me from it!”
Desreta Jackson - Young Celie Harris
Akosua Busia - Nettie Harris

“- Roger: [singing] Ti tum ti ta ti, ta tum ti ta tum.
- Roger: Do you like my new song?
- Anita: Ta tum ti ta tum. Such clever lyrics.
- Roger: Melody first, my dear, and then the lyrics.”
Ben Wright - Roger
Lisa Davis - Anita

“There was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn't just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting. And I believe that time can come again!”
Luke Wilson - Joe Bauers