- Gareth Lowell: Ah, you're just like your mother. I've done everything in the world for the both of ya'. I guess we just don't talk the same language any more.
- Eileen Lowell: To speak any language, Daddy, you have to start early and practice often.
- Craig Fowler: Did you ever do something you couldn't help doing... like step in every square of a sidewalk?
- Eileen Lowell: Touch every post on a fence? There was a time... when I was little.
- Craig Fowler: Did you ever have something terrible happen and everything goes blurred and rushed 'til you can't stop and all of a sudden you're doing the one thing you swore you'd never do again?
- Jay Fowler: [Dancing drunkily with his wife Jackie] I adore you, baby. Adore you. Need you baby. Want you now. Be good to me baby. Be good...
- [He falls to the couch]
- Jay Fowler: The whole world is whirling, whirling, whirling... Hold me, baby. Help me. Kiss me.
- [He passes out]
- Gareth Lowell: What kind of car was he driving?
- Betty Lowell: I don't know. I don't judge people by their cars.
- Betty Lowell: We've been in this neighborhood too long.
- Gareth Lowell: I like it here.
- Betty Lowell: Why not? Around here where the only real religion is keeping up with the Jones. You're a Jones.
- Gareth Lowell: And you're Mrs. Jones.
- Gareth Lowell: You know what, Betty? You're getting old.
- Betty Lowell: I know. I wish I could say the same for you.
- Carlo: It's so ironic. Walk down any street, look in any window, see how many of us sitting in a dark room while a television eye peeps for us into other people's houses, into other people's lives. We have become a nation of Peeping Toms. No longer participating in life but getting your little pleasures by watching others.
- Date in car: Okay, back to Mama's ville. Get out. Now, when you're ready to play in the big league, you call me.
- Eileen Lowell: Go to hell!
- Betty Lowell: So pin me. You think I finally made varsity. So where's my big red "A"?
- Gareth Lowell: Oh sure, it's just a big joke to you isn't it?
- Betty Lowell: For a while I was up to bat swinging from my heels. But I didn't really earn my scarlet letter. In fact, I settled for ice coffee.
- Betty Lowell: Goodbye, Gareth. I hope you'll be happy.
- Gareth Lowell: With money, who needs happiness?
- Jackie Fowler: Was there really a prowler? That same nut in the mask?
- Gareth Lowell: Sure, sure. You don't think I'd jump over your fence without an accuse, do you?
- Jackie Fowler: Men have been known to.
- Gareth Lowell: Tell me, Jackie, aren't you afraid without your loving husband home to protect you?
- Jackie Fowler: You volunteering?
- Gareth Lowell: It's convenient and I'm right next door.
- Police Sgt. Webber: This guy's gonna celebrate Independence Day in jail.
- Jackie Fowler: How can you be so sure?
- Lindstrom: Because he wants to get caught.
- Jackie Fowler: Wants to get caught?
- Lindstrom: That's why he attracts attention to himself.
- Police Sgt. Webber: Professor Freud of the police force. He wants you to know he went to college.
- Lindstrom: I think the important thing is that we're dealing with a sick person, rather than a hardened criminal.
- Betty Lowell: Strange how the two of us live side by side, with our lives so different and yet so similar.
- Jackie Fowler: Similar?
- Betty Lowell: Well, we both got married when we were kids - when we were too young to know what we were doing.
- Jackie Fowler: [showing off her new swim suit] Do you like?
- Betty Lowell: Oh, it's beautiful, Jackie.
- Eileen Lowell: Keen, Mrs. Fowler!
- Betty Lowell: If your father didn't work so hard, we wouldn't have all these luxuries.
- Eileen Lowell: Luxuries? What about love? Or, don't you think that Daddy's running around with other women is wrong? I'm sorry Mother, I shouldn't have said that.
- Betty Lowell: Infidelity is wrong, Eileen.
- Betty Lowell: I must warn you. It's going to be noisy here tomorrow night. We're having a Fourth of July pool party. We have one every year. We're sort of famous for it - if not notorious.
- Jay Fowler: Do you have any idea what it's like? A thousand miles of ice and not a single dame. Can I fix you a drink?
- Jackie Fowler: I could use one.
- Jay Fowler: Great, baby, great!
- Lindstrom: How about your wife? Doesn't she ever wear shorts?
- Police Sgt. Webber: I'm not married. Not me.
- Lindstrom: How about your mother then? Wasn't she ever affected by the heat?
- Police Sgt. Webber: My Mother was a lady. Never catch her prancing around with everything showing. She never had a dirty thought in her life.
- Jay Fowler: The brass got the transports. They jammed us civilian mechanics into a jet tanker. You know who they stuck all by himself back in the tail section? Good old Jay. Good natured Jay. Well, well, at least when we put down in Canada I bought some booze for company. Jet age, baby! Canada to California, four hours - and a fifth of scotch.
- Jay Fowler: [to Craig] Hey, how come you're hanging around the house the night before a holiday? Why don't you take Eileen to the movies?
- Jackie Fowler: She's already got a date.
- Jay Fowler: Well, she's not the only bird in the bushes. Why don't you go call Martha. She looks like a tasty little - eh - here's a fin. Now, don't say your old man never gave you anything. Vacation time. Stay out late. Live it up!
- Betty Lowell: Eileen's getting pretty confused these days.
- Gareth Lowell: Confused? About what?
- Betty Lowell: Oh, nothing complicated. Just about what's wrong and what's right.
- Police Sgt. Webber: Only four years and on the detective bureau?
- Lindstrom: I had some training in psychology.
- Police Sgt. Webber: My first four years I pounded a beat and - a skull or two. The police force sure isn't what it used to be.
- Lindstrom: It's not the same world either.
- Jackie Fowler: Remind me to cancel the cleaning woman this Thursday. Why do the windows have to be so clean? So some Peeping Tom can look in?
- Eileen Lowell: My mother wants to talk to you.
- Date in car: What about? We haven't done anything - yet.
- Betty Lowell: Like Columbus, we got there first. First with the two cars, the stereo, the sliding glass doors, the swimming pool. First to find out that the promised land is a fraud. There's more in life than home improvement. There's self-improvement. In that, we've got a long way to go.
- Gareth Lowell: Knock it off, will you! This constant belittlement's got to stop. I'm free, I'm over 2, I've got a good business, and except for *you*, I've got the respect of everybody I deal with. High class people!
- Betty Lowell: High class call girls!
- Gareth Lowell: I thought maybe we'd jump into the Mercedes and drive up to Las Vegas, shoot a little craps, get a little shut eye, and then hit the chuck wagon for breakfast and then, va-boom, right back here in time for a real gasser of a party.
- Gareth Lowell: Miss Diving Champion of 1942, the body beautiful, since when did you get smarter than anybody else around here?
- Carlo: Does your husband love you?
- Betty Lowell: For Gareth, love is a mask. He only uses it when he wants sex.
- Betty Lowell: Nowadays, when, wherever you look, somebody in a bathing suit is trying to sell you something. You'd think the whole world would collapse if they didn't use sex to sell a product.
- Jackie Fowler: What have you been doing?
- Craig Fowler: I've been reading. What have you been doing?
- Jackie Fowler: Sleeping.
- Craig Fowler: Where?
- Lindstrom: Do you have any dates, Craig? How many in the past month? Three? Four? Two?
- Police Sgt. Webber: Have you ever had relations with a girl?
- Craig Fowler: Huh-uh.
- Police Sgt. Webber: But, you like lookin' at girls, don't you?
- Lindstrom: Who doesn't?
- Jay Fowler: Babe, baby, old Jay is just back from the frozen north. I wouldn't miss your party for anything in the world. Bring on the dancing girls, Betty baby, old Jay will be there.
- Gareth Lowell: The doctor said a couple of bruises and a minor concussion was all that happened to you. Why, is there something else?
- Eileen Lowell: What do you mean?
- Gareth Lowell: You were - you weren't hurt any place else?
- Eileen Lowell: No, Dad, just in the back yard.
- Police Sgt. Webber: Why does the kid stand outside the window instead of going in?
- Lindstrom: Because it gives him a sense of power over the person inside without really having to face 'em.