- Bill: Could I please go now?
- Ann: No. Not yet.
- Bill: How much time do I have left?
- Ann: As soon as you are no longer a danger to yourself or others, you may leave.
- Bill: And who determines that?
- Ann: I do, initially.
- Bill: And who does finally?
- Ann: My supervisor.
- Bill: Your immediate supervisor?
- Ann: Yes.
- Bill: Okay. So you could highly recommend to him that I be released, and he would take that into account.
- Ann: When you're ready.
- Bill: Well, what do I have to do to get ready?
- Ann: You need to accept the fact that you're going to be here for a while.
- Bill: You're ruling out the possibility of a miraculous recovery.
- Bill: [into intercom] Can I get an order of booty and a side order of Xanax, preferably a blonde, for a condemned man?
- Supervisor: How would you complete the phrase: I before E, except after...
- Bill: Could you repeat that one.
- Supervisor: I before E, except after...
- Bill: Except after 9 AM.
- Ann: I know the country you were describing. I was a girl there. It's gone. There's nothing, now, but this nightmare of you, me, and my sister.