| Harry Block: |
[I] think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people
like you. |
| ----- |
| Harry Block: |
[T]he most beautiful words in the English language
are not "I love you," but "it's benign." |
| ----- |
| Harry Block: |
[A]ll people know the same truth, our lives
consist of how we choose to distort it. |
| ----- |
| Richard: |
[Y]ou and science, right? |
| Harry Block: |
Well, yes, nothing's wrong with science. Ya
know, between, between air conditioning and the Pope, I'll
take air conditioning. |
| ----- |
| Elevator Voice: |
Floor 5: subway muggers, aggressive panhandlers,
and book critics. Floor 6: right-wing extremists, serial killers,
lawyers who appear on television. Floor 7: the media. Sorry,
that floor is all filled up. Floor 8: escaped war criminals,
T.V. evangelists, and the N.R.A. |
| ----- |
| Doris: |
You have no values. Your whole life: it's nihilism,
it's cynicism, it's sarcasm, and orgasm. |
| Harry Block: |
You know, in France, I could run on that slogan
and win. |
| ----- |
| Harry Block: |
Now good fortune smiled on Harvey as one of
his closest friends, Mendel Birnbaum, was hit by a car and
lay hovering between life and death at New York hospital,
thus freeing up a great bachelor apartment for Harvey's tryst. |
| ----- |
| The Devil: |
You want me to turn on the air conditioner? |
| Harry Block: |
You're air conditioned here? |
| The Devil: |
Sure, it's fu**s up the ozone layer. |
| ----- |
| Joan: |
You're an atheist, Harry. |
| Harry Block: |
Yeah, hey, we're alone in the universe, you're
gonna blame that on me, too? |
| ----- |
| Grace: |
What's the matter? You look strange. |
| Mel: |
I'm out of focus. |
| ----- |
| The Devil: |
It's like Vegas: you're up, you're down, but
in the end, the house always wins. Doesn't mean you didn't
have fun. |
| ----- |
| Harry Block: |
Tradition is the illusion of permanence. |
| ----- |
| Lucy: |
You're so fu**ing verbal! Who else could have
talked me into giving him a blow job at my father's funeral?! |
| ----- |
| Harry Block: |
[I] may hate myself, but not 'cause I'm Jewish. |
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