The Cheever Letters

Season 4, Episode 8 — 66 scenes

• "I think people think of their office as a stationery store with Danish."
• "I got a wife and three kids. I better get home."
• "-She hasn't told her father yet? -We're supposed to tell him tonight."
• "We've put this off long enough. Today's the day."
• "What's the worst he can do? So you burn a house down."
• "...that the pen and the paper and the chair play a large role."
• "But they're all somewhat incidental to the actual using of the brain."
• "-Weren't you supposed to call Elaine? -Yes."
• "Every time I call, I gotta chitchat with her assistant for, like, 20 minutes."
• "Every time I call, Sandra bends my ear for, like, 20 minutes."
• "I'm in my apartment. You come in."
• "...could you not talk to them for too long?"
• "-All right, let's get going. -All right, let's go to work."
• "Remember I told you about the pro at the Westchester Country Club..."
• "I can't ask the guy for more cigars after you burned down his cabin."
• "I can't help you. You're gonna have to get them someplace else."
• "You got four hours. What about the script?"
• "Doesn't George look like your sister Sara?"
• "Oh, I have tremendous respect for people who work with feet."
• "I mean, what is the point of opening your mouth and going:"
• "Daddy, there's-- There's something that we have to talk to you about."
• "Of course she knows it was me who complained."
• "Listen, I wanted to tell you there's been a terrible misunderstanding."
• "She thought, I think, "Yeah, it's a real treat talking to her on the phone.""
• "-She wants to have a drink with me. -Just go. Go."
• "...and Dad thought it would be a good idea to get her out into the fresh air."
• "Not, "Take care of your sister." She's a paraplegic."
• "He built a Fortress of Solitude up at the North Pole..."
• "-Burned? -There was a fire, and it--"
• "But, you know, Mr. Ross, if you look at the whole situation..."
• "-That was a weird thing to say. -Why? It didn't mean anything."
• "I mean, people, they're not interested in things like this."
• "I'm looking at the hand thinking, "That hand should not be on my leg.""
• "Yet women have no problem getting the hand off. How do they do that?"
• "-Typical things. -What's typical? Give me typical."
• "Now, bear in mind, I am just trying to keep up."
• "So she's talking about her panties."
• ""You mean, the panties your mother laid out for you.""
• "Look, the main thing is I don't want Elaine to know about any of this."
• "I mean, it's embarrassing. She'd never let me hear the end of it."
• "-What do you got? -I got, you enter, you go, "Hi.""
• "I guess I'm just gonna have to take matters into my own hands, huh?"
• "Where are you going? Don't run off like that."
• "Well, it's a very private matter, but extremely urgent."
• "-Okay, let's get going. -Let's get focused here."
• "I just have to go over to the Rosses' and drop off Susan's sunglasses."
• "In fact, if George and I weren't so busy working, I'd do it myself."
• "Okay, so I'd like to buy a couple of boxes of those from you."
• "Well, illegal, huh?"
• "-Oh, here's your sunglasses. -Oh, thanks. Come on in for a second."
• "Well, you should always consider podiatry."
• "You come in the house, you wipe your wheels."
• "Said it was the only thing left from the remains of the fire."
• "...last night with you was bliss."
• "I don't know how I shall ever get back to work."
• "Yes. Yes, he was the most wonderful person I've ever known."
• "In a way you could never understand."
• "Jerry hates to miss the coming attractions."
• "-All right, what do you got? -I got, you come in, you say, "Hi.""
• "So she blabs to Lippman about my long-distance calls to Europe!"
• "-What calls? -I made a friend when I was in Europe."
• "I was the one that encouraged you to fire her."
• "Yeah, we're heading up to Westchester. Gonna hit the links."
• "She just bought me some new panties, and they're all laid out for me."
• "Eventually, I'm sure people will get too lazy even for phone sex."
• "Then, I guess, the phone company will come out with sex-waiting."