- Diana: Someone once said, if you want something very badly, set it free. If it comes back to you, it's yours forever. If it doesn't, it was never yours to begin with.
- David: I thought we were invincible. But now I know that the things that people in love do to each other, they remember. And if they stay together, it's not because they forget. It's because they forgive.
- John: Dance?
- Diana: I should go.
- John: I remember once when I was young, and I was coming back from some place, a movie or something. I was on the subway and there was a girl sitting across from me and she was wearing this dress that was bottoned queer up right to here, she was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. And I was shy then, so when she would look at me I would look away, then afterwards when I would look back she would look away. Then I got to where I was gonna get off, and got off, the doors closed, and as the train was pulling away she looked right at me and gave me the most incredible smile. It was awful, I wanted to tear the doors open. And I went back every night, same time, for two weeks, but she never showed up. That was 30 years ago and I don't think that theres a day that goes by that I don't think about her, I don't want that to happen again. Just one dance?
- Jeremy: [on the phone] Let me get this straight. He offered you a million dollars for a night with your wife? As in *your* wife Diana? And you agreed to it? I don't know what to say. How could you do something like that? *How could you negotiate without me?* Never negotiate without your lawyer. Never! For a woman like Diana I could have gotten you at least two million. Obviously, you don't want to get screwed, and then... screwed!
- David: [while playing pool] I guess there's limits to what money can buy.
- John: Not many.
- Diana: Well some things aren't for sale.
- John: Such as?
- Diana: Well you can't buy people.
- John: That's naive, Diana. I buy people every day.
- Diana: In business, maybe, but you can't buy people not when real emotions are involved.
- John: So you're saying you can't buy love? That's a bit of a cliché don't you think?
- Diana: It's absolutely true.
- John: Is it? What do you think?
- David: I agree with Diana.
- John: You do? Well let's test the cliché. Suppose... I were to offer you one million dollars for one night with your wife.
- David: I'd assume you're kidding.
- John: Let's pretend I'm not. What would you say?
- Diana: He'd tell you to go to hell.
- John: I didn't hear him.
- David: I'd tell you to go to hell.
- John: That's a reflex answer because you view the question as hypothetical. But let's say that there was real money backing it up. I'm not kidding. A million dollars. The night would come and go but the money could last a lifetime. Think of it. A million dollars. A lifetime of security... for one night. Don't answer right away. Just consider it; seriously?
- David: We're positive, okay?
- John: Well then you've proved your point. There are limits to what money can buy. It's late, and I hate to admit it, but I have meetings in the morning. May I have one dance? With your permission.
- David: You know something? I think you better hurry on to that meeting. You don't want to miss out on your next billion.
- John: Understood. I wouldn't part with her either. Good night.
- John: [reading through the contract drawn up by Jeremy] Do you want to elaborate on the "Verification" clause?
- Jeremy: Verification? That means you pay even if the relationship isn't consummated.
- John: You mean if I'm impotent?
- Jeremy: It's important for a lawyer to cover contingencies.
- John: I can live with that. The "John Garfield Clause"?
- Jeremy: That's if you die in the act.
- John: I have no problem with that either. Could I have your pen?
- [signs contract]
- John: You're pretty good, you know.
- Jeremy: Thank you.
- John: You should come and work for me.
- Jeremy: Ooh!
- Diana: [Narrating] We met in the high school, David was a senior and I was a freshman. On Wednesdays after glee club he would drive me and my best friend home from school. I used to watch him in the rear view mirror, I fell in love with his eyes and when I turned nineteen he proposed to me on the pier on Paradise Cove. Our parents were against it, they said we were too young, we really didn't know each other. David said "A life without risk is no life at all" so we eloped.
- Day Tripper: [to David and Diana, while watching John playing in the high rollers section inside the casino] That's John Gage, that's a damn billionaire, that's a rich son of a bitch right there. He's down over a million dollars already, see the gold coins he's playing with? Ten thousand dollars a piece, every time he lays one down, ten thousand big ones, look at how cool he is, that son of a bitch must get more pussy than you can shake a stick at.
- Diana: [Narrating] we had our differences, he used to take his clothes off and leave them on the floor it made me crazy. We never had much money so David would show me architecture that moved him but sometimes I'd have to ask "why are we looking at a stupid car wash? "And he'd just say "no, not stupid, don't just use your eyes: he made me look at things differently
- [first lines]
- David: [sitting on a pier] Losing Diana is like losing a part of me. I thought nothing could change the way we felt about each other. I thought we were invincible.
- Diana: [riding in a bus] Someone once said, if you want something very badly, set it free. If it comes back to you, it's yours forever. If it doesn't, it was never yours to begin with. I knew one thing, I was David's to begin with, and he was mine.
- John: [while playing pool] Where do you see yourself in let's say, ten years?
- David: I wouldn't mind being a billionaire like yourself
- John: I mean even beyond money, what would satisfy you completely? For you to sleep well at night?
- David: You're saying you're not satisfied?
- John: Who is?
- Diana: [while watching them play] I am
- John: Does she mean it?
- David: I hope so
- John: Well then you may not have won in Vegas but you're a lucky man because I have money and businesses and security you just have something I don't have.
- David: [Narrating] I graduated from architecture school and got a job at a small firm. Diana helped support us by selling real estate. I spent all of my free time working on a design of my own, it summed up everything about architecture that really mattered to me, it was my dream house
- David: [Narrating, referring their idea to construct and build the house David designed himself] it was brilliant even though I didn't understand a word of it. We had to tighten our belts because of the loan payments but it was our future and I got to build my dream house and then the recession hit. Construction fell to its lowest point in years, people were being laid off everywhere and I was one of them. I was desperate we stood to lose everything: the house I had building even our own home. I swallowed my pride and borrowed five thousand dollars from my father but it wasn't enough, we needed fifty thousand dollars
- [David, very drunk, confronts Diana and Gage as they leave a restaurant]
- David: I want a word with you, Gage. See, what you don't know is, we got a secret, me and Diana. We're invincible. Diana, you're so fucking beautiful.
- John: Maybe tomorrow would be better.
- David: Maybe tomorrow would be a better time?
- David: Hey, I got a suggestion for you. You know that emblem you got? The gryphon? The eagle? I don't think that's a good idea. I got a better idea. Shall I? It's all right. How about the cuckoo? You know? Because...
- [Gage starts turning away]
- David: I'm talking to you for a second.
- [Gage turns back to face David]
- David: The cuckoo is interesting because it doesn't have its own nest... so it moves into other birds' nests and it destroys their eggs.
- Diana: David, stop. Just...
- David: You don't love me anymore? Have I ever told you I love you? Have a nice dinner.
- [David pretends to walk away. Suddenly he turns back and attempts to punch Gage, but since he is drunk, his punch misses. He loses his balance and falls]
- John: [to Mr. Shackleford] Help him.
- [Mr. Shackleford helps David to stand up, and brings him to his apartment]
- David: D, you gotta tell me what happened on that boat.
- Diana: David, don't do this. Don't do this!
- David: Tell me what happened on that boat.
- Diana: Why?
- David: Because I want to know.
- Diana: All right, I'll tell you. You know what, the man was a fucking stallion, David. Is that what you want me to say? We did it all night long? Does that do it for you?
- David: Is that the truth?
- Diana: The truth? You don't want the fucking truth. You want me to lie. You want me to say he's awful. So, you know what? I'm gonna tell you he's awful, and you won't believe me. How can I win?
- David: Just tell me the truth, D.
- Diana: It was sex, David. Just sex. Not love. Just sex.
- David: And was it good sex?
- Diana: Don't do this, David.
- David: Can you just tell me that, D? Was it good? What are you hesitating for? Just tell me. Was it good? Was it good? Was it good?
- Diana: Yes.
- Diana: This is your house, isn't it?
- John: Do you like it?
- Diana: Well, it's certainly beautiful.
- John: What do you think it needs? Tell me. Honestly.
- Diana: I think it needs a life. I think it needs furniture, and maybe a couple of dogs and flowers.
- John: It needs you.
- Diana: Just forget it. It just... it just won't work.
- John: Why not?
- Diana: Because from where we started, we've got nowhere to go.
- John: You don't know that. I've never started this way either. I need you.
- Diana: No. You collect things. Don't you?
- John: Sometimes.
- David: Great architecture is only gonna come from your passion. And even that won't assure you a job. Louis Kahn died in a men's room in Penn Station. For days no one claimed the body.
- Jeremy: Cheer up. You got to find a more creative way to think about this, okay? Just look at it like an episode of The Dating Game that went a little bit, you know, awry or something like that.
- John: And if you were mine... I wouldn't share you with anyone.
- Diana: You have no right to judge David. You're the one who has to buy women.
- John: You think I have to buy women?
- Diana: Why me, then?
- John: I bought you because you said you couldn't be bought.
- Diana: I can't be bought. We're just gonna fuck, as I understand it.
- John: You might enjoy it.
- Diana: Don't bet on it.
- John: I think I will. Heads, we do. Tails, we call the whole thing off, turn the boat around, go home. No hard feelings. What do you say?
- Diana: It's your party.
- John: It's my lucky dollar. So I can't lose.
- David: D, don't you... don't you tell me it was just sex, because you were attracted to him all along.
- Diana: You know that's bullshit. David, I did it for you.
- David: Don't you tell me you did it for me. You did it for yourself.
- Diana: That's not... That's a lie!
- David: You were dying to do it!
- Diana: That's a lie! I would never do this for myself. It was all for you.
- David: Don't lie to me! You were attracted to him!
- John: I am very happy. Shackleford, did you ever see me like this?
- William Shackleford: Can't say that I have.
- John: Diana is the reason.
- William Shackleford: Enough for any man.
- John: She is the best of them. Absolutely. You are the best of them.
- Diana: The best of them? You said I'm the best of them?
- John: You are.
- Diana: I don't understand.
- John: Shackleford, could you explain it to her?
- William Shackleford: What? I could do that, sir. But somehow I feel Miss Murphy would rather hear it directly from you.
- John: Okay. All right. She's the best of the million dollar club. Obviously.
- Diana: Million dollar club?
- John: Now you've got it.
- Diana: You told me you'd never done that before.
- John: How many members would you say there are?
- William Shackleford: Members?
- John: Yeah.
- William Shackleford: Worldwide?
- John: Yeah.
- William Shackleford: I think a couple of dozen. Remember the one that wouldn't stop hiccuping?
- John: What?
- William Shackleford: The waitress from Oklahoma. Every time you came near her, she would convulse into hiccups.
- John: Yeah, I had... I had forgotten. Quite a night. See, the best thing of it is that you know if you're sexually compatible, right from the start.
- Diana: Shackleford, would you stop the car? Thank you, John. Goodbye.
- John: Goodbye.
- David: The great ones are impossible to deal with. They're a pain in the ass, because they know that if they do their jobs properly, if they just this once get it right, they can actually lift the human spirit, take it to a higher place.
- William Shackleford: What was all that about?
- John: I wanted to end it. She never would have looked at me the way she did at him.
- Mr. Langford: Diana, I would never dream of forcing you to do anything against your will. Except this one time. Now move your ass, or you're fired.