Sonny Paluso Quotes in The Survivors (1983)

Sonny Paluso: You think Wes is God, don't you.

Donald Quinelle: No, not God, Just an ordinary man. Maybe a little ahead of his time, but just an ordinary man.

Sonny Paluso: Wes is an asshole.

Donald Quinelle: Blasphemy! Oh, you'll smoke a turd in hell for that!

Candice Paluso: Listen, this is gonna sound like a really stupid question, but, uh, aren't you guys gonna get really bored out here if society doesn't collapse?

Donald Quinelle: I wouldn't worry about that. Wes says society is heading for the big "flush". And we're going to be the ones who are clinging to the rim while everything else goes down.

Candice Paluso: Eeew!

Sonny Paluso: What're you going to do if things get better?

Donald Quinelle: Is the air getting better?

Candice Paluso: That's true.

Donald Quinelle: The economy? The Middle East? Arts, literature, television, US Presidents improving?

Sonny Paluso: Anyone can nitpick.

Donald Quinelle: Sonny, name one thing that's gotten better in the last ten years.

Sonny Paluso: [Sonny is stumped]

Donald Quinelle: See?

Candice Paluso: Video games.

Sonny Paluso: Video games! There you are.

Donald Quinelle: Alright, I acknowledge that.

[last lines]

Donald Quinelle: Tell me things are gonna work out, Sonny.

Sonny Paluso: Everything's gonna work out.

Donald Quinelle: Yeah, yeah. Boy, it's been a strange winter, hasn't it?

Sonny Paluso: Not really.

Donald Quinelle: No.

Sonny Paluso: You're not going to die.

Donald: They always say that to people who are going to die.