- Dr. Squires: Certain people you just can't trust, you know Luke?
- Dr. Squires: Never trust anyone who doesn't smoke pot or listen to Dylan.
- Dr. Squires: Never trust anyone who doesn't like the beach.
- Dr. Squires: Never, EVER, EVER trust anyone who says they don't like dogs!
- Dr. Squires: You meet someone who doesn't like dogs you alert the authorities IMMEDIATELY and you sure as SHIT don't MARRY THEM!
- Stephanie: Know what your problem is, Shapiro? It's that you just have this really shitty way of looking at things, ya know? I don't have that problem. I just look at the dopeness. But you, it's like you just look at the wackness, ya know?
- Luke Shapiro: I do?
- Stephanie: All you have to do is look at me. And kiss me.
- Luke Shapiro: Do me a favor, Steph?
- Stephanie: Huh?
- Luke Shapiro: Don't say nothin, ok? Just stand there til I leave. I wanna remember this. I've never done it before.
- Stephanie: Never done what?
- Luke Shapiro: Had my heart broken.
- Grandma Shapiro: Luke, have you had any more thoughts about what you're gonna be as far as a profession goes?
- Mr. Shapiro: Mom, he's got time.
- Grandma Shapiro: I'm just asking!
- Luke Shapiro: Actually, I'm thinking about becoming a shrink.
- Grandpa Shapiro: Psychology! It's not quite the shoe business, but it's a very interesting field.
- Luke Shapiro: I figure I'm an expert because everyone around me is so fucking crazy, you know?
- Dr. Squires: Don't jump for the quick fix. This whole fucking city wants a quick fix. Embrace your pain. Make it a part of you. You don't want to be like them. I don't want you to be like them.
- Dr. Squires: The city's a disaster, Luke. Its not like it used to be. It's plastic. One big fucking happy meal.
- Luke Shapiro: Some people like happy meals.
- Dr. Squires: Some people like the Yankees too, Luke. It doesn't mean they're right.
- Luke Shapiro: In June I graduate. And then I go to my safety school. And then I get a little older. And then I die.
- Luke Shapiro: [asking his mom for a cigarette] Got another?
- Mrs. Shapiro: You smoke?
- Luke Shapiro: Everything.
- Dr. Squires: It used to be you could lick a sheet of acid, hold up a band, fuck a whore in Times Square without anyone batting an eyelash. Now, one blunt, we're in the clink. This whole city's fucked!
- Dr. Squires: It's great, living. Get your heart broken, find yourself face down in the gutter, get your balls sucked, make a real mess of a life.
- Luke Shapiro: So that was all bullshit right? All that stuff about embracing your pain, making it a part of you? You can't do this, you can't just give up. Life is hard and it's full of pain and what-not, but we take it cause there's great stuff too. And we can do it cause we have friends- because we have each other.
- Dr. Squires: He doesn't appreciate you.
- Elanor: How do you know that?
- Dr. Squires: He couldn't possibly.
- Elanor: That's a compliment, right?
- Dr. Squires: [touches brim of hat] Ma'am.
- Stephanie: It doesn't matter.
- Luke Shapiro: Doesn't matter? Why not?
- Stephanie: Because how could anything possibly matter right now?
- Dr. Squires: The ocean. This is all I need, Luke. Forget the city. The city is wrong. I just want to wrap myself in the ocean.
- Dr. Squires: Young men need sex, Luke. All men, actually... I- I can get you a hooker if you like.
- Luke Shapiro: God, I was *this* close to respecting you.
- Dr. Squires: Big mistake, Luke. Call your girl. You don't need medication, Luke. You just need to get laid.
- Dr. Squires: Men do the things they need to do to become the men they want to be. Do you understand?
- Luke Shapiro: Sure.
- Dr. Squires: That includes asking for help.