- Alison Kantrowitz: I never have to listen to you ever again. I saw you. I was there. You should have seen yourself. You looked disgusting! I'm the teenager! Not you! You had your chance.
- Pearl Kantrowitz: No. I didn't.
- Alison Kantrowitz: Well then why do the rest of us have to suffer just because you fucked up your life!
- Lilian Kantrowitz: Do you remember when you were a little boy and you wanted to go swimming with your cousin?
- Marty Kantrowitz: Yeah - you didn't wanna let me go because...
- Lilian Kantrowitz: Because I knew something terrible was going to happen. I knew your cousin was gonna drown.
- Marty Kantrowitz: Yeah, but nothing terrible happened, Ma.
- Lilian Kantrowitz: And why is that?
- Marty Kantrowitz: Because I was careful.
- Lilian Kantrowitz: No. Why did nothing terrible happen?
- Marty Kantrowitz: We were extra careful because you told me.
- Lilian Kantrowitz: And your cousin wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for me.
- Marty Kantrowitz: What's goin' on, Ma? Who's gonna drown?
- Lilian Kantrowitz: [pause] You are.
- Pearl Kantrowitz: I went to Woodstock.
- Marty Kantrowitz: You went to Woodstock.
- Pearl Kantrowitz: Ummm...
- Marty Kantrowitz: Was it groovy?
- Marty Kantrowitz: Sometimes things happen between people that make it impossible for them to stay together.
- [Lilian Kantrowitz is giving Selma Levitsky a tarot reading]
- Selma Levitsky: So?
- Lilian Kantrowitz: No.
- Selma Levitsky: "No"? That's what I pay you for? "No"?
- Lilian Kantrowitz: The cards don't lie.
- Selma Levitsky: Maybe they're subject to interpretation.
- [Lilian picks up a card showing a man lying dead with 10 swords sticking out of his back]
- Lilian Kantrowitz: Does this look like a "vacation" card?
- Marty Kantrowitz: Who is he?
- Pearl Kantrowitz: You don't know him.
- Marty Kantrowitz: Well what's his name?
- Pearl Kantrowitz: Walker.
- Marty Kantrowitz: What's his FIRST name?
- Pearl Kantrowitz: That IS his first name.
- Marty Kantrowitz: Well then what's his last name?
- Pearl Kantrowitz: Jerome.
- Marty Kantrowitz: Walker Jerome. Does he realize it's backwards? What's he do?
- Pearl Kantrowitz: He's a salesman.
- Marty Kantrowitz: [laughs] A salesman, that's great. What does he sell?
- Pearl Kantrowitz: Blouses.
- Marty Kantrowitz: Blouses?
- [pauses, then looks shocked]
- Marty Kantrowitz: He's the blouseman. You're screwing the blouseman. Jesus, Pearl, why not screw the dressman? At least then you'd get a whole outfit.
- Lilian Kantrowitz: [after the Blouse Man tells her to get some meat tenderizer to treat Danny's wasp bites] Meat tenderizer? What is he - a pot roast?
- Alison Kantrowitz: You love the blouseman more than all of us?
- Pearl Kantrowitz: No. Sometimes it's easier to be different with a different person.
- Pearl Kantrowitz: [Looking at the portable TV in Walker's bus] I've never seen one so small.
- Walker Jerome: You like that? My brother picked it up in southeast Asia.
- Pearl Kantrowitz: What was he doing over there?
- Walker Jerome: Killing people.
- Daniel Kantrowitz: [Dad Marty is driving his family on vacation, mom beside him in front, granny & kids in back; they're singing the Name Game: "Shirley Shirley bo-Birly, Bonana Fana fo-Firley" etc] Let's do "Chuck"
- Marty Kantrowitz: No "Chuck". We don't do "Chuck"
- Daniel Kantrowitz: You never let me do "Chuck".
- Marty Kantrowitz: When you're married you can do "chuck".
- [mom raps dad in the arm, smiling]
- Alison Kantrowitz: Are you and Daddy gonna get a divorce?
- Pearl Kantrowitz: I don't know, baby. Sometimes, things happen between people that make it impossible for them to stay together.
- Alison Kantrowitz: Look, Mama, I know Daddy's a big square, but he's still Daddy!