- Amy Rile: We all have to ride the train together. And there's no back of the bus when all the seats face one another, anyway.
- Amy Rile: How you gonna show your sweetheart back home how mean and ugly New York is?
- John Hidell: I ain't really aiming on going home.
- Barry Aaron Speiler: There are people on this planet who live their whole lives without ever feeling hope. But everyone, everyone feels despair at one time or another. Despair, like the speed of light or the weight of hydrogen, is a universal absolute.