- Violet: Do you know what's the major problem in contemporary social life? The tendency to always seek someone cooler than yourself.
- Rose: Humility comes from within. If it's not there in the first place, where do you go to get it? I stopped looking a long time ago.
- Violet: We're also trying to make a difference in people's lives, and one way to do that is to stop them from killing themselves.
- Depressed Debbie: [Angry] You think I'm going to kill myself and make you look bad?
- Violet: I'm worried that you'll kill yourself and make yourself look bad.
- Fred Packenstacker: I wasn't just buying drinks for people; they were for cute girls. There was a perfectly rational, logical, easily-explainable agenda.
- Violet: [Smiling slightly] So it *was* a playboy or operator move.
- Fred Packenstacker: Of course. Transparently so.
- Violet: I admire that. Drinks are expensive.
- Violet: Poor Lily. Just think of all Xavier put her through. He just used her body. And not even the right side.
- Violet: Have you ever heard the expression, prevention is nine-tenths the cure? Well in the case of suicide, it's actually ten-tenths the cure.
- Violet: Are you...
- [whispers]
- Violet: ... gay?
- Fred Packenstacker: Not especially. But in another era it might have had some appeal.
- Fred Packenstacker: Normally I'd be reluctant to comment on anyone's religion but...
- Xavier: What?
- Fred Packenstacker: I'm sorry, I guess I'm a bit a of bigot, but I could never take seriously a religion that worships on Tuesdays. All the major religions require worship on the weekend - Friday, Saturday or Sunday. I find it just really laudatory that people should sacrifice their weekend to worship god.
- Xavier: Having the sabbath Tuesday always seemed very bizarre to me.
- Heather: [about Lily's friend] " Zavier " with a " Z? "
- Lily: No, I think it's with an "X."
- Heather: No, I'm certain it's a "Z." " Zavier " Like " Zorro. " It's the same sound.
- [Draws a "Z" in the air with her finger]
- Heather: Zorro marked his name with a "Z."
- Lily: It's an "X."
- Heather: But Zorro's with a "Z." I t's the same.
- Violet: Okay, let's see if we can figure this out. Used at the beginning of a name, " Z " and "X" have the same pronunciation.
- Heather: But it's Zorro- with a "Z."
- Violet: Actually there were two " Zorros. " One spelt his name with a " Z " and made a " Z " mark for Zorro , the other one spelled him name with an "X" and with his sword he'd make an "X" mark . What was really unfair was that, because he marked his name with an "X", everybody assumed he was illiterate, when actually he was spelling correctly
- Violet: We get a lot of students coming to the center pretending to be depressed to get the donuts.
- Rose: Confidence tricksters!
- Violet: Yes, it's really bad, really cynical. And we made a pledge the donut company that we would only give the donuts to students who were depressed, suicidal or otherwise nutty. We're a non-profit, so the rules are pretty strict.
- Heather: I'm really worried about Thor... It's hard for us to imagine how upsetting it is not knowing what the colors are.
- Rose: In fact it's impossible for me to imagine.
- Heather: When Thor sees a rainbow - it's only so much gibberish to him. There was one this afternoon: Oh my gosh! He took it hard. Recently there was a parade in the city where the marchers carried rainbow- colored flags and banners. Thor was so upset: he said he'd no idea what it meant
- Violet: It's very dangerous, parents letting their children travel. They send them off to the airport and they don't know what they'll be getting back.
- Violet: Seven Oaks is the last of the Select Seven to go co-ed. An atmosphere of male barbarism predominates. We're going to change that.
- Violet: [to Jimbo, who she believes is depressed] Did you know that a good-smelling environment is crucial to our overall sense of well-being? Have you considered finding a better-smelling place to live?
- Lily: There's no logic to the algebra of love.
- Fred Packenstacker: The algebra of love? That sounds like the title of some lame book.
- Lily: It's a title but the book's not lame at all.
- Fred Packenstacker: Love's algebra? I always thought it was more geometry.
- Lily: Okay, the title's not good but the book is.
- Fred Packenstacker: What's it say?
- Lily: Well, that while we're all perverse in our romantic preferences, there's actually this logic, or algebra to our perversity. And it has something to do with how the species has evolved.
- Fred Packenstacker: The survival of the species?
- Lily: Yes, and whether it will continue to do so.
- Freak Astaire: The show is for everyone.
- Depressed Debbie: [Protesting] No, it's NOT! It's for the clinically depressed!
- Violet: Rose has a very sensitive nose. Have you heard of "nasal shock syndrome?" Any harsh, acrid, or just "disgusting" odor sends Rose into nasal shock
- Rose: This wasn't true nasal shock. Had it been, I'd've lost consciousness entirely.
- Lily: Just from some b.o.?
- Violet: "Just some b.o .?" Omigod, Lily, you must have a very high threshold for pain! That'll serve you well here at Seven Oaks!