Vida Dove: [she has just quietened down the kids] Honestly, Murray, they're your children. It does seem to me that you could...
Murray Myer: Could what?
Vida Dove: [sitting back down at her typewriter] Oh, never mind.
Murray Myer: [reaching for a page] Did they interrupt deathless lines?
Vida Dove: Leave that alone.
Murray Myer: Okay. I will wait with the rest of mankind. When are you going to leave your world of make-believe?
Vida Dove: Murray, are you in pain?
Murray Myer: Not right now, no.
Vida Dove: Then there's no excuse for you being so mean.
Murray Myer: Mean? Am I being mean or just realistic?
Vida Dove: What you call realism is only sadism, Murray. You're so insecure.
Murray Myer: Sure, I'm insecure. Who isn't?
Vida Dove: I am not.
Murray Myer: No? You're thirty years old and afraid to get married. That's pretty secure isn't it?
Vida Dove: I'm not afraid to get married, Murray.
Murray Myer: Then why don't you quit stringing Eddie along? What kind of a life is it for the guy, picking you up three times a week at the Circle Inn... ..and bringing you straight home?
Vida Dove: My marriage is my own business, Murray.
Murray Myer: You are afraid. And I'll tell you why; you think about being alone in an apartment with Eddie, that moment when the living room lights go out and there's only one room to go to. You - the princess - being just a wife. And you can't face it, Vida.
Vida Dove: I don't know why you have such a fantastic idea of me, Murray. I really don't know why.
Murray Myer: I'll tell you why; because I went around with you before I married Evelyn. You were a prude then and you're still a prude. You're a born old maid. A man doesn't want an old maid. He wants a woman.
Murray Myer: [she disdains from responding] Well, I gave you a good chance to hit back, why don't you use it?
Vida Dove: Stop it, Murray!
Murray Myer: You won't say it? Alright then, I'll say say it: and a woman wants a man, and I'm only half a man and Evelyn's a full-blooded woman. Isn't that what you're thinking? Say it for heaven's sake! Say it!
