Billy Chenowith quotes from Six Feet Under

Billy

I'm not saying that you did it on purpose! But I do think we need to disengage from each other, because our relationship is really toxic.

Brenda

[about Margaret] I already left a message saying I was coming over. So if she wants me to walk in on more fucking, that's her choice.

Billy

I can do it for you if you feel like you've seen enough of Mom's pussy for a few days.

Brenda

Who could ever see too much of Mom's pussy? It's like a trip down memory lane.

Billy

What's going on with you?

Claire

l don't know. l guess l'm depressed. l don't think it's clinical, but l just can't seem to have a normal healthy relationship with another person.

Billy

Right. Get in line. Nobody has normal healthy relationships. My theory, which l have yet to put into practice, is to pick someone slightly less crazier than you are.

Claire

Society propagates this vision of people hooking up and staying together forever. ln reality, how often does that actually happen?

Olivier

Of course, they're going to say nice things about you; they're your kids. But me, I'm a miserable prick who cares nothing about anybody but himself; and I look at you in your hospital bed, tired and worn-out from surgery and I selfishly wonder "How long must I wait before I can fuck you?"

Margaret

Wow. Finally somebody said something right.

Brenda

It would have been weird if I'd said it.

Billy

Not in this family.

Margaret

Darlings, could you give us a moment?

Brenda

Oh, Mom, you're not going to –

Margaret

I just want to be with Olivier for a minute.

Claire

Did you stop taking your medication?

Billy

Yeah! But that's a good thing.

Claire

Why?

Billy

Because, Claire... okay, I'm sick of feeling like I am living every moment inside a giant Xeroxed fucking cotton ball.

George

So, you stopped taking them? Just like that?

Billy

Yep.

George

How do you feel?

Billy

I feel a little tingly. That's about it. What do they got you on these days?

George

Well, they just switched me from Lithium to Tophranil.

Billy

Oh.

George

In between the shock treatments.

Billy

What are those like?

George

Honestly, I don't know. I go in. They put me on a bed. They give me some oxygen. They say "You're going to feel a little prick in your hand." That always makes me laugh. And then the next thing I know, I wake up with the worst headache I've had in my life.

Billy

You think it's helping?

George

I think that, as Émile Coué used to say, "Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better." But not everyone agrees.

Billy

Yeah. It's hard to get your shit together with someone watching all the time.

George

Hm, yeah, it is. But when no one is watching, then where are you? Where the fuck are you then?