Jesse:
This friend of mine had a kid, and it was a home birth, so he was there helping out and everything. And he said at that profound moment of birth, he was watching this child, experiencing life for the first time, I mean, trying to take its first breath... all he could think about was that he was looking at something that was gonna die someday. He just couldn't get it out of his head. And I think that's so true, I mean, all - everything is so finite. But don't you think that that's what, makes our time, at specific moments, so important?
Celine:
Yeah, I know. It's the same for us, tonight, though. After tomorrow morning, we're probably never going to see each other again, right?
Celine:
We, maybe we should try something different. I mean, it's no so bad if tonight is our only night, right? People always exchange phone numbers, addresses, they end up writing once, calling each other once or twice...
Jesse:
Right. Fizzles out. Yeah, I mean, I don't want that. I hate that.
Celine:
I hate that too, y'know.
Jesse:
Why do you think everybody thinks relationships are supposed to last forever anyway?
Celine:
Yeah, why. It's stupid.
Vanessa Kensington:
Look, I know I'm being neurotic, but I can't shake off this suspicious feeling about Miss Fagina. I don't want to sound paranoid, but I've had some bad relationships in the past, and I have been known to be jealous. I'm sorry.
Austin Powers:
No, don't be sorry, baby. You're right to be suspicious. I shagged her.
Vanessa Kensington:
What?
Austin Powers:
I shagged her rotten, baby, yeah!
Vanessa Kensington:
Did you used protection ?
Austin Powers:
Of course. I had my 9mm automatic.
Vanessa Kensington:
You know I meant, did you use a condom?
Austin Powers:
No, only sailors wear condoms baby.
Vanessa Kensington:
Not in the '90s Austin.
Austin Powers:
Well they should, those filthy buggers. They go from port to port.
Andy Stitzer:
[drunk] You know the thing about relationships is that they make one person go, "Blah blah blah blah blah," and the other person go, "What are you talking about?" And then one person goes, "Blah blah blah blah blah."
Cal:
How much have you had to drink, man?
Andy Stitzer:
Oh, how much have I had to drink? Hey, how many pots have you smoken?
Cal:
What are you talking about?
Andy Stitzer:
Oh, how many times have you gone to the bathroom in your life? Let me ask you that. You know what, you don't have an answer for that, do you? Who the fuck you, man? I'm sorry. No, no, no, no, you're such a good guy, and I appreciate you.
What marriage offers - and what fidelity is meant to protect - is the possibility of moments when what we have chosen and what we desire are the same. Such a convergence obviously cannot be continuous. No relationship can continue very long at its highest emotional pitch. But fidelity prepares us for the return of these moments, which give us the highest joy we can know; that of union, communion, atonement (in the root sense of at-one-ment)...
To forsake all others does not mean - because it cannot mean - to ignore or neglect all others, to hide or be hidden from all others, or to desire or love no others. To live in marriage is a responsible way to live in sexuality, as to live in a household is a responsible way to live in the world. One cannot enact or fulfill one's love for womankind or mankind, or even for all the women or men to whom one is attracted. If one is to have the power and delight of one's sexuality, then the generality of instinct must be resolved in a responsible relationship to a particular person. Similarly, one cannot live in the world; that is, one cannot become, in the easy, generalizing sense with which the phrase is commonly used, a
