The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Sam Shapiro:
[beginning of film: toasting Herb at dinner party] I have known Pippa Lee for 25 years and I think that I will really ever know her. She is a mystery... an enigma... giving, caring, beautiful, intelligent... the very icon of an artist's wife.

Pippa Lee:
[after leaving hospital where her adulterous husband who wanted a divorce has been declared brain-dead, she is sitting in bed with Chris, eating french fries after having climbed through his window] So... it's official, nobody needs me anymore.

Pippa Lee:
What made you lose your faith?

Chris Nadeau:
I just stopped believing God was a mystery you could nail down with one book.

Sam Shapiro:
Writers are vampires. I'm waiting for the right girl to come along and make me a human being.

Chris Nadeau:
What are you thinking?

Pippa Lee:
I was just thinking that you seem like...

Chris Nadeau:
What?

Pippa Lee:
...Just that you seem, you seem so bright.

Pippa Lee:
It's a pity you never settled on any real work. It would make your life so much easier.

Chris Nadeau:
Okay. Well, thank you...

Pippa Lee:
I didn't mean to offend you.

Chris Nadeau:
I suggest that you go back to that little life you've puffed up for yourself. I'm sure you're very happy underneath all that anxiety.

Pippa Lee:
You're right. You know, you... you are an a**hole.

Chris Nadeau:
Told you.