Impolite (1992)

Robert Wisden: Jack Yeats

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Jack Yeats : [answering the phone]  Obits, Jack Yeats speaking.

  Beth : Paris, it's Beth!

• Jack Yeats : Even paranoids have enemies. How do letterbombs work?

  Weinfield : They blow you to bits when you open them. Jack, relax, none of the guys that would like to kill you know how to make a letterbomb; much less write a letter.

• Jack Yeats : [after being chewed out by his boss]  Since when do obituary writers have deadlines.

• Gloria Sardone : [taking notes]  Catherine Sienna... Any relation to the saint?

  Jack Yeats : The same that way you're related to the poet.

• Catherine Sienna : May I offer you a beverage?

  Jack Yeats : Please. Double Jamesons, two cubes.

  Catherine Sienna : [relaying order]  Magdalena, Double Assumptions, two Holy Ghosts.

• Catherine Sienna : You have sorrowful eyes Mr. Yates.

  Jack Yeats : I haven't been sleeping well.

  Catherine Sienna : I like that in a man.

  Jack Yeats : Insomnia?

  Catherine Sienna : In the art is a flimsy mortal bastion. I like the evidence of ruins to your soul. It suggest intriguing possibilities to the physician.

• Jack Yeats : The Garden of Eden was no great shakes.

  Catherine Sienna : I'll defer to your experience.

• Naples O'Rorke : Do you know the parable of the Prodigal Son?

  Jack Yeats : Some would say too well.

  Naples O'Rorke : Consider this, killing the fatted cow could mean there's going to be an autopsy before there's going to be a feast.

• Jack Yeats : How do I know you're not Paris?

  Naples O'Rorke : Oh come now, Mr. Yates, if I were him, do you think I'd want to be me?

• Jack Yeats : The dead are being very uncooperative.

• Jack Yeats : Happiness *is* possible Beth. As long as all the parties make sure their inner-children are in bed before the streetlights go on, and spend the rest of the evening as adults.

• Jack Yeats : Here's $150. Don't spend it all in one place.

  Beth : I may only be going to one place...