- Lucy: I've got one foot on the accelerator and one foot on the brake. If I took my foot off the brake I'd burn rubber halfway across this country. Don't believe all that romance about writers block. Everybody has it: butchers, bakers, writers; it just means you've got one foot on the brake.
- Lucy: [regretting her fling with Sloan] I'm trying to impose will and imagination on a sordid mistake.
- William: [responding to Sloan's claim that he isn't gay] If cannibals ate a lot of turnips, that wouldn't make them vegetarians.