- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Genetic predispositions are only that: predispositions. It's not a destiny written in stone. People have choices.
- Tony Soprano: She finally offers an opinion!
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: You think that everything that happens is preordained? You don't think that human beings possess free will?
- Tony Soprano: How come I'm not making freakin' pots in Peru? You're born to this shit. You are what you are.
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Within that, there is a range of choices. This is America!
- Tony Soprano: Right... America.
- Tony Soprano: Maybe this was his chance to get out. I know Dad was no choir boy, but maybe with a little bit of support...
- Livia Soprano: Oh, Mr. Sensitive now. Well, if it bothers you, maybe you better talk to a psychiatrist.
- [walks away]
- Tony Soprano: Whoa, what are you talkin' about, a psychiatrist?
- Livia Soprano: Well, that's what people do when they're lookin' for somebody to blame for their life, isn't it?
- Tony Soprano: You're a real stone player, aren't you, Ma? You threatened to smother his children.
- Livia Soprano: What does that mean?
- Tony Soprano: You know, everyone thought Dad was the ruthless one. But I gotta hand it to you. If you'd been born after those feminists, you woulda been the real gangster.
- Livia Soprano: I don't know what you're talking about!
- [walks away]
- Tony Soprano: What about Pussy?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: [looks confused]
- Tony Soprano: He's an acquaintance of mine.
- Peter Galani: He often has difficulty waiting his turn, is often quote unquote, "on the go" or acts if driven by a motor. Often interrupts or intrudes on others. And often fidgets with hands or feet.
- Tony Soprano: He fidgets with hands or feet?
- Peter Galani: That's right.
- Tony Soprano: You mean, like, he fidgets?
- Peter Galani: Uh-huh.
- Tony Soprano: And that's a sickness, to fidget?
- Peter Galani: Mr. Soprano, it's one of nine possible symptoms.
- Tony Soprano: What constitutes a fidget?
- Carmela Soprano: Tony...
- Tony Soprano: No, no, what constitutes a fidget? I mean, so what if he fidgets? He's in school. Who doesn't fidget in school? And he doesn't wait his turn? The kid's in puberty, he gets a hard-on every ten minutes, for chrissake.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: She was very high strung, my mother. Very dramatic. Every night to her was a night at the opera.
- [cut to a scene of Tony's youth]
- Livia Soprano: [to Tony] I could stick this fork in your eye!
- Tony Soprano: But I'll tell ya somethin', I was proud to be Johnny Soprano's kid. When he beat the shit outta that guy, I went to the class, I told them how tough my father was.
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Do you think that's how your son feels about you?
- Tony Soprano: Yeah, probably. And I'm glad. I'm glad if he's proud of me. But that's the bind I'm in 'cause I don't want him to *be* like me.
- Tony Soprano: [Referring to his son] maybe I don't want to admit there's something wrong with my kid but this sounds like bullshit to me
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: What'd you mean?
- Tony Soprano: If it's a disease why do they tell me to punish him? Doesn't that sound like bullshit?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: ADD is a controversial subject
- Tony Soprano: Is it a disease or is it a way for these psychologists to line their pockets?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Many children can benefit from professional intervention
- Tony Soprano: He got into a little trouble
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: So, you don't consider his behavior out of the norm?
- Tony Soprano: No, I don't know, what do I know about it?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: What'd you mean?
- Tony Soprano: Oh, I've got to spell it out for you?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Do you see his behavior a reflection of your own?
- Tony Soprano: Look like I said maybe I don't want to admit there's something wrong but if his got this "thing", we'll deal with it. If he had Polio, we'll deal with it. You pick up the pieces and you go on from there so that's what we're going to do
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Do you have anything else you want to say about this?
- Tony Soprano: [Shakes his head]
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Last time you were telling me you had intimate feelings for me
- Tony Soprano: "Intimate feelings"? I think I said I was in love
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: How are you doing with it?
- Tony Soprano: Well, I can't just turn off my feelings because you tell me it's a by-product of therapy
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: I never said you should turn off your feelings
- Tony Soprano: Well, I already got a girlfriend. She's Russian she's twenty four. How old are you?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: I find it interesting it took you so long to tell me you have a girlfriend
- Tony Soprano: Look, I've got to ask you one more question about my son, you think I should go easy on him or press him a little harder?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: That's difficult to say
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: That must have been devastating.
- Tony Soprano: No, it turned out it was no big deal.
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: To see your father handcuffed, being led away by the police.
- Tony Soprano: At the time I thought my head was gonna explode. He looked... helpless. When I got home my mother had a different perspective, which made me feel better.
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: So in her pain she reached out to you.
- Tony Soprano: That's one way to put it.
- [cut to a scene of Tony's youth]
- Young Livia Soprano: Your father may not be home for dinner tonight. Go wash up.
- Young Tony Soprano: I know.
- Young Livia Soprano: What do you know?
- Young Tony Soprano: I saw him getting arrested. What did he do?
- Young Livia Soprano: He didn't do anything. They just pick on the Italians.
- Johnny Boy Soprano: After Rocco gets the book up, he's gonna open a new supper club. He wants me to run it.
- Young Livia Soprano: A supper club? Are you drunk?
- Johnny Boy Soprano: Oh, bella Madonna, Jesus Christ Almighty!
- [hits the wall]
- Johnny Boy Soprano: Fucking albacore around my neck! Every time I try to do somethin'! Me and the kids will go without ya!
- Young Livia Soprano: They are not going anywhere! I'd rather smother them with a pillow than take them to Nevada!
- Johnny Boy Soprano: Always with the drama!