Janey Carver: Ben, you're boring me. I have a husband. I don't have a need for another one.
[Stopping by his son's room, momentarily putting down his luggage] Jim Carver: Hey guys, I'm back! Mikey Carver: You were gone?
[first lines] Train Conductor: Good morning ladies and gentlemen. This train, originating from New York's Grand Central Station, is back in service. Next stop will be New Canaan, Connecticut. New Canaan, Connecticut next stop. Paul Hood: [narration] ...
Wendy Hood: I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
[Saying grace at Thanksgiving] Wendy Hood: Dear Lord, thank you for this Thanksgiving holiday. And for all the material possessions we have and enjoy. And for letting us white people kill all the Indians and steal their tribal lands. And stuff oursel...
Janey Carver: A person's body is his temple.
Philip Edwards: Sometimes the shepherd needs the comfort of the sheep. Elena Hood: I'm going to try hard not to understand the implications of that.
[Explaining the facts of life to his son] Ben Hood: On the self-abuse front - and this is important - I don't think it's advisable to do it in the shower. It wastes water and electricity and because we all expect you to be doing it there in any case....
Ben Hood: Well, that's the whole point of the holidays, Paul. So you and your sister can mope around the house, and your mother and I can wait on your hand and foot, while the two of you occasionally grunt for more food from behind the hair in your f...
Paul Hood: When you think about it, it's not easy to keep from just wandering out of life. It's like someone's always leaving the door open to the next world, and if you aren't paying attention you could just walk through it, and then you've died. Th...
Mikey Carver: Because of molecules we are connected to the outside world from our bodies. Like when you smell things, because when you smell a smell it's not really a smell, it's a part of the object that has come off of it, molecules. So when you sm...
[Mikey rides up behind Wendy] Mikey Carver: I don't ever want to see you. Wendy Hood: Then why did you come after me? [Mikey stops, turns his bike around and rides off]
Ben Hood: The only big fight we've had in years is about whether to go back into couples therapy.
Janey Carver: Mikey's been out of it since the day he was born.
Wendy Hood: Are you watching this? Paul Hood: What? Wendy Hood: Nixon, dufus, its incredible, he should be shot.
Sandy Carver: Where are you going? Mikey Carver: Out. Sandy Carver: Its freezing! Mikey Carver: Yeah Sandy Carver: Then why are you going? Mikey Carver: When its freezing, Because it means the molecules aren't moving, so when you breath, theres nothi...
Wendy Hood: [playing with a soldier doll] Well, looks like someone got to his private parts before us. Sandy Carver: Communist Viet Cong. Wendy Hood: They left it in the jungle.
Philip Edwards: Perhaps you find in books what I try to find in people. Elena Hood: That sounds vaguely like an insult.
