- Kay: You don't make anything, do you?
- Harry Corwin: That's where we're different, doll. You make anything, don't you?
- Red: All right, hot shot, what do we do now?
- George Kelly: What do we do now? What do we do? What do we do? You know what we do?
- Red: What?
- George Kelly: We follow that perfume, that's what we do. Let's go!
- Jane: I think he's cute.
- George Kelly: Well, I think you're cute. I think you're the cutest thing I ever saw. And you're cuter by the minute.
- Jane: I think you're drunk.
- George Kelly: I'm drunk! But, you're cute.
- Kay: To go to a poor man without love, it is noble. It is sacrifice. But, when the man is rich and there is no love, it is shameful. That is corrupt!
- Kay: What is most important to you is how you feel. You're like a child. You're world is ice cream. All that counts is the flavor.
- Kay: You are such a child. Why don't you go home to your mother? You're nothing. You don't know me at all. Money has very little to do with how I feel. Only in how I act!
- A.L.: During a war, what seems like emotion is often only fever. People do peculiar things in the grip of fever. They act against their own interest. They give up what's real for merely what's the product of a high temperature. Afterwards, they're sorry, of course, but then it's very often too late.
- Kay: I have no fever. Just a headache.
- A.L.: Then, take care of it. I don't like to see you ill.
- Red: I used to sail boats like that when I was a kid. There was this little brook, the kind of a brook that ran back of the house and the other kids in the area - the other kids and I we used to build these boats out of matchboxes and race them down stream. Do kids do things like that in Italy? I guess all kids do. The only trouble is that there was a kind of a waterfall at the end of the race and the boat that usually won, usually fell to the side and got all crashed. We never seemed to be able to catch it in time.
- Kay: So, even when you won, you lost.
- Red: Well, we could always build another boat. There were plenty of matchboxes.
- Kay: I want what I have. When I came to this country, I had nothing. There was nothing I could do. I was good for nothing. Then, I found I was good for one thing: I could please a man. And I like to please a man. It gives me all I have and ever wanted.
- Red: You've never been to Vermont, have you? We don't have volcanoes there; but, we've got mountains. It's called the Green Mountain State. You can like living there. In the winter it gets cold; but, its a dry kind of cold and you don't feel a thing until your ears are ready to fall off.
- A.L.: He has so much to offer: youth, courage, faith. He seems too innocent to be rich, even by inheritance. But, then, in the dark, all men are equally rich or poverty-stricken.
- George Kelly: Look, kid, we picked up a couple of broads on a train. What do you expect? We had a few laughs, but, we're ahead of the game.
- Jane: I hope the war never ends. Isn't that awful. All those boys being hurt and killed. I want it to go on and on. Just like now. Cause I was thinking and I heard, "What's gonna happen to me when the war ends? What's gonna happen to all the good times?" I said right out loud, "Don't let it stop. Don't let the good times stop."