Hubbell Gardner: You hold on and I don't know how. And I wish I did. Maybe you were born committed... I can't get negative enough. I can't get angry enough. And I can't get positive enough.

Hubbell Gardner: When you love someone, from Roosevelt to me, you go deaf, dumb and blind.

[discussing advocacy for political causes]
Hubbell Gardner: I don't see how you can do it.
Katie Morosky Gardner: And I don't see how you can't

Hubbell Gardner: The trouble with some people is they work too hard.

[Katie proposes chucking politics in order to save their marriage]
Hubbell Gardner: You're unhappy unless you do something. Because of me, you're trying to lay out, but that's wrong... wrong for you. Commitment is part of you. Part of what makes you attractive, part of what attracted me to you.

Katie Morosky Gardner: Your girl is lovely, Hubbell.

Hubbell Gardner: What kind of pie?

Katie Morosky Gardner: You'll never find anyone as good for you as I am, to believe in you as much as I do or love you as much!
Hubbell Gardner: I know that.
Katie Morosky Gardner: Well then, why?
----
Katie: I don't have the right style for you do I?
Hubbell: No you don't have the right style.
Katie: I'll change.
Hubbell: No don't change you're your own girl, you have your own style.
Katie: But then I won't have you. What can't I have you?
Hubbell: Because you push too hard, every damn minute. There's no time to ever relax and enjoy living. Everything's too serious to be so serious.
Katie: If I push too hard it's because I want things to be better, I want us to be btter, I want you to be better. Sure I make waves you have I mean you have to. And I'll keep making them till your everything you should be and will be. You'll never find anyone as good for you as I am, to believe in you as much as I do, or to love you as much.
Hubbell: I know that.
Katie: Well, then why?
Hubbell: Do you think if I come back it's going to be okay by magic? What's going to change? What's going to be different? We'll both be wrong. We'll both lose.
Katie: Couldn't we both win?
----
Katie Morosky Gardner: Wouldn't it be wonderful if we were old? Then we could say we survived all this. Everything thing would be uncomplicated, the way it was when we were young?
Hubbell Gardner: Katie, it was never uncomplicated.

Hubbell Gardner: A... two cheese burgers and four cokes.
Katie Morosky Gardner: Onion?
Hubbell Gardner: Yeah, in the cokes.

Hubbell Gardner: [when Katie doesn't want to go to a party with Hubbell's friends] Maybe something terrible will happen - maybe you'll have a good time.

Hubbell Gardner: People are more important than their principles.
Katie Morosky Gardner: People ARE their principles.

Katie Morosky Gardner: Happy Rosh Hashana.