- Billy Waters: [lays down phone] I'm sorry, where were we?
- Lydia Grant: You were on the Orient Express and I was on the subway.
- Lydia Grant: Billy, you're smart enough to do anything you wanna do, be anything you wanna be.
- Billy Waters: Eh, poor and honest? That's a concept I have to sneak up on slowly.
- Clifton Bauer: Where is that old pegleg?
- Lydia Grant: Well, he's been unavoidably detained, eh, but he asked me to please appologize to you for any inconvenience we might have caused you.
- Clifton Bauer: Honey, I only get inconvenienced when I skip my prunes in the morning.
- [laughs]
- Mr. Shorofsky: One thing I'm sure of: teachers move in and out of a child's life, and are forgotten. Fathers? Never!