Eugene: She wants me to write quietly. If that was the only sentence I published in my memoirs, it would be a bestseller.
Category: Neil Simon
Marvin Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He has written more than thirty plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays.
Eugene: Why don’t you just say you lost the money? You had a hole in your pocket. You can tear a hole in your pocket.
Laurie: Eugene! Your father wants us to go to the store.
Eugene: Tell him I’m sick. My stomach hurts.
Laurie: You don’t want any ice cream?
Eugene: (thinks) Ice cream? Wait a minute. (aside) It’s amazing how quickly you recover from misery when someone offers you ice cream.
Eugene: How am I going to become a writer if I don’t know how to suffer? Actually, I’d give up writing if I could see a naked girl while I was eating ice cream.
Eugene: I guess there comes a time in everybody’s life when you say, “This very moment is the end of my childhood.” When Stanley closed the door, I knew that moment had come to me. I was scared. I was lonely. And I hated my mother and father for making him so unhappy. Even if they were right, I still hated them. I even hated Stanley a little because he left me there to grow up all by myself.
Eugene: You don’t get too far talking to Laurie. Sometimes I think the flutter in her heart is really in her brain.