- Wendell Sonny Lawson: [while out in the ocean] Oh, God! Let me live, and I promise to obey every one of the Ten Commandments. I shall not kill... I shall not commit adultery... I shall not... I... uh...
- [apparently forgetting the remaining eight Commandments]
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: I'll *learn* the Ten Commandments, and *then* I'll obey every fucking one of them!
- [last lines]
- Marlon Borunki: You don't like me any more.
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: I like ya, Marlon. I like ya, I really do.
- Marlon Borunki: You do?
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: I do. But you gotta understand. Tell me you understand.
- Marlon Borunki: I understand. I love ya, Sonny. I really do.
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: I love ya to, Marlon.
- Marlon Borunki: I love ya, Sonny.
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: I love you too.
- Marlon Borunki: [hugging then Marlon suddenly pulls a knife] Surprise!
- [and chases Sonny down the beach]
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: Mom, I've been having trouble getting sleep lately. Do you have any sleeping pills?
- Maureen Lawson: Sleeping pills? I don't think we have any sleeping pills do we, Ben?
- Ben Lawson: Your know darn well we have enough sleeping pills in there to put the whole Mormon Tabernacle Choir in a coma!
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: I'm talking about dying.
- Marty Lieberman: What do you mean?
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: I mean lying in the ground with dirt on your face and holding your breath forever.
- Marlon Borunki: [Talking about why he strangled his father, which caused him to be put in the mental institution] You know, a lot of doctors have different theories about why I did it: Mother complex. Father complex. Feelings of inferiority. Suppressed rage. But I, and I alone, know the reason that I did it... It was because... he was so Polish!
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: [a bit confused] "Polish"?
- Marlon Borunki: When I was a kid, I was tormented with Polish jokes. Oh, you know, "Who was Poland's Man of the Year?" - Nobody. "How do you sing the Polish National Anthem?" - Ya' don't sing it, ya' fart it. "How do you tell a Polack's identification?" - By the shit in his wallet.
- [starts to sob]
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: [Grudgingly showing some sympathy] Kids can be very cruel.
- Marlon Borunki: What "kids"? My father told me those! He was ALWAYS teasing me! He was a big, loud, hairy, sweaty... POLACK!... He was covered with sweat, always. The only man I know who could sweat... while he was swimming! And I could NEVER have friends over because... he'd challenge them to a nose-picking contest... and he always won!
- Marlon Borunki: It's very interesting the way you woke up cursing. A large percentage of attempted suicides wake up with exclamations of hostility.
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: Where am I?
- Marlon Borunki: 92% of them ask that. You're in La Playa.
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: The nut house?
- Marlon Borunki: That's a cruel label. We prefer, booby hatch.
- Marlon Borunki: I'm writing a book on insanity. You should always write about something you know. You know? I'm calling it, 'Fruitcakes I have known.'
- Marlon Borunki: You're in La Playa.
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: The nut house?
- Marlon Borunki: That's a cruel label. We prefer, 'booby hatch.'
- Jessica Lawson: Sleeping pills? Oh, Sonny, why do you need sleeping pills? If you would just go on a good diet.
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: Dont lecture me from classes I paid for!
- Jessica Lawson: What's the matter, Wendell?
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: I don't feel good.
- Jessica Lawson: [pouring a shake into a glass] Here, why don't you drink this? It'll make you feel better.
- [Wendell drinks it and then gags quietly]
- Jessica Lawson: Why don't you borrow some pills from your folks? They're hypochondriacs.
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: My folks are not hypochondriacs! You always call them hypochondriacs! They might have a couple downers, though.
- Jessica Lawson: Sonny, why are you here?
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: I told you, I have something to discuss with Julie. It's very important.
- Jessica Lawson: Will it depress me?
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: God, I hope so.
- Jessica Lawson: Then would you save it until tomorrow? I have had a bad day. Julie woke up at 5:30, this morning, screaming that the shark was after her again. I'll never forgive you for taking her to see that movie. You know she's afraid of the water anyway.
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: I'm sorry, Jessie. I took her to see it because she wanted to. I was trying to make her happy.
- Jessica Lawson: Oh, she'll say "yes" to look brave to you. You're so dumb.
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: I will not be called "dumb" by the woman that I support!
- Jessica Lawson: Shhh! The maid is taking a nap.
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: I support the maid too!
- Jessica Lawson: You wake up Maria, Sonny I'll...
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: We fired Maria!
- Jessica Lawson: This is another Maria!
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: Oh.
- Jessica Lawson: Julie's screaming woke her up at 5:30 in the morning, too. Then Maria starting screaming because she thought it was the Border Patrol.
- [She then notices her date arriving]
- Jessica Lawson: That's my date. Now will you just get out of here, please?
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: No.
- [Jessica screams aggravatedly, then Sonny laughs]
- Jessica Lawson: Why don't do you just drop dead?
- [Throws her apron at Sonny's head]
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: [Muffled] I'm working on it!