Ship of Fools

Mary Treadwell:
Everybody on this ship is in love. Love me whether or not I love you. Love me whether I am fit to love. Love me whether I am able to love. Even is there is no such thing as love. Love me.

Bill Tenny:
I was in Vercaruz trying to teach them greasers to play ball. Man, they tried to poison me. You know, I had the runs for three weeks.

Mary Treadwell:
How interesting. I'd like to hear more about it.

Mary Treadwell:
Tell me. Wouldn't it unnverve you to have an affair with me?

Jenny Brown:
I think that David thinks a woman should follow three paces behind with slippers.

Mary Treadwell:
Men usually do.

Rieber:
Lowenthal, you know it is a historical fact that the Jews are the basis of our misfotunes.

Lowenthal:
Of course.

Rieber:
You agree?

Lowenthal:
Of course. The Jews and the bicycle riders.

Rieber:
The bicycle riders? Why the bicycle riders?

Lowenthal:
Why the Jews?

Bill Tenny:
[Drunk] You know what I think?

Glocken:
No.

Bill Tenny:
I think you're a sawed-off intellectual.

Lowenthal:
How old are you?

Elsa:
Sixteen.

Lowenthal:
Adolescence. What is adolescence? Adolescence is a time when people worry about things there's no need to worry about. Sixteen... I promise you, at seventeen you will be even more charming than you are now. At twenty-one, you will be gorgeous. And at twenty-five... devastating! And I won't stand any argument!

Frau Hutten:
Do you know what they say in Mexico? Mexicans loathe the Americans, hate the Spaniards, distrust the English, admire the French and love the Germans.

Rieber:
That is all very nice. I am glad they say those things but, as far as I am concerned, after a few weeks in Mexico, you can keep the Mexicans too.

Lowenthal:
I like people; if you look for it, you can find something good in anybody.

Freytag:
Doesn't it bother you that you and that little man are the only two Germans not at the Captain's Table?

Lowenthal:
Do you think that bothers me? Besides, I like that little man; what kind of salesman do you think I would be if I couldn't deal with a situation like that? A salesman is supposed to deal a difficult situation and overcome it. Listen, it's not a new story: white men hate black men, Muslims hate Buddhists-that's the way it goes. There's prejudice everywhere. It does no good to give it back. You have got to use your noogin'.

Mary Treadwell:
If you can't get what you want, you damn well better settle for what you can get.