- Marty Lakewood: One gets work readily when the penalty for failure was a clubbing. You learn not to take 'no' for an answer.
- Marty Lakewood: They all gotta' go somehow, doll. We all do. It was all written down more than a million years ago by a very funny god. You know, in the beginning, there was nothing. Then He spoke, and that's when all the shit started. We're just pawns, kid. You know, players. Playin' a part. God had to do something to amuse Himself, so He dreamt us up. I hope He got a good laugh, don't you, babe?
- Carol Lakewood Morton: The things you say, Marty.
- Lois Archer: Do you love me more than you love your sister?
- Marty Lakewood: Well, what do you got to bring her up for?
- Lois Archer: Do you, baby? Just tell me.
- Marty Lakewood: I told you, they're different. They're completely different. They're two different things. One's a glass of milk, one's a highball. Both satisfying in their own ways, but different. They're just two different drinks. Two different kinds of love.