Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.

It's a weakness to apologize before hearing what the other person's grievances are. You don't want to end up creating new grievances where there were none to begin with. Another Daddy-ism, if you hadn't already guessed.

Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.

It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.

Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?

Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.