“- Celine: Do you think you would have finished your book if you were fucking someone every five minutes?
- Jesse: I might have welcomed the challenge.”
Julie Delpy - Celine
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“- 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

“Who can say for certain what a man was really born to be? That's God's will.”
Donald Crisp - Father John Callahan, C.S.C

“Someday Knute will find his right place in the world, and when he does, whether it be science or not, I have a feeling it will be the one he was meant to do.”
Donald Crisp - Father John Callahan, C.S.C

“We may be in the wrong place at the right time, after all.”
Marjorie Rambeau - Tugboat Annie