“Rose, I cheat at cards and buy liquor for minors. But I would never, ever force you into something you don't want.”

“If you have the winning cards, why cheat?”

“Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.”

“Because it's simple, I love you, and I don't want to keep pretending like I don't. -Rose to Dimitri”

“Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?”

“Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”

“I wish people who sell things would stop trying to guess how many of something we want to buy. I want to buy things one at a time.”

“I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you're going through, but it's happened and I don't know what to do.”

“I can't think again. Not ever again. I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that.”

“If you want to get a television today -- I buy thousands of television sets. If I want a television, I would love the buy American-made televisions like they used to have where they had GE and Sylvania and all of the different. Today, it's Samsung, it's LG, it's Sony. We don't make televisions anymore.”