Isaac Davis: Years ago I wrote this short story about my Mother called "The Castrating Zionist"
Isaac Davis: My ex-wife left me for another woman.
Mary Wilke: I guess I should straighten my life out, huh? I mean, Donnie my analyst is always telling me... Isaac Davis: You call your analyst Donnie? Mary Wilke: Yeah, I call him Donnie. Isaac Davis: Donnie, your analyst? I call mine Dr. Chomsky, y'...
Isaac Davis: It's brown water! I'm paying seven-hundred dollars a month, I got rats with bongos and a, and a frog and I got brown water here.
Isaac Davis: I think that, under my personal vibrations, I could put her life in some kind of good order. Yale: Yeah, that's what you said about Jill, and under your personal vibrations she went from bisexuality to homosexuality. Isaac Davis: Yeah, b...
Isaac Davis: Plus I'll probably have to give my parents less money. It'll kill my father. He's not gonna be able to get as good a seat in the synagogue. He'll be in the back, away from God, far from the action.
Isaac Davis: [after reading his ex-wife's book about their relationship] [to his ex-wife] Isaac Davis: I came here to strangle you!
Isaac Davis: This is shaping up like a Noel Coward play. You know, somebody should go out and make some martinis.
Isaac Davis: This is so antiseptic. It's empty. Why do you think this is funny? You're going by audience reaction? This is an audience that's raised on television, their standards have been systematically lowered over the years. These guys sit in fro...
Isaac Davis: Has anybody read that Nazis are gonna march in New Jersey? Y'know, I read this in the newspaper. We should go down there, get some guys together, y'know, get some bricks and baseball bats and really explain things to them. Party Guest: T...
Yale: You know we have to stop seeing each other, don't you. Mary Wilke: Oh, yeah. Right. Right. I understand. I could tell by the sound of your voice on the phone. Very authoritative, y'know. Like the pope, or the computer in 2001.
Isaac Davis: Hit the lights. Go ahead, turn 'em out again. We'll trade fours.
