Excerpt from Kings Highway

MANNY: Dee, that might be the love of your life leaving right now and you’re wasting your precious few pretty years left ragging on me!

DEE: Do you think I like this?

MANNY: It seems like you might.

DEE: You really think so, you selfish asshole?

MANNY: I do. I think you live for the drama. It’s the only way you get your kicks.

DEE: I’m taking care of this family.

MANNY: You’re choking everyone in it!

(BYRD reenters stage right.)

MANNY: Byrd, save yourself. Take the first flight out to Montana as soon as you can.

DEE: What?

MANNY: You didn’t tell her about the move?

BYRD: Jesus, Manny.

DEE: You’re moving to Montana?

BYRD: Maybe in a few months. In the fall. Before the winter --

DEE: Mom’s moving to Florida and you’re moving to Montana?

BYRD: Mom’s not moving to Florida.

DEE: But she said –

BYRD: I know what she said but she just made it up because she was afraid if I told you I wanted to move out west you’d be upset.

MANNY: Voila!

DEE: How long have you been thinking about this?

BYRD: Forever. Two days. I don’t know. I just need some direction.

DEE: And it points west? Montana west? You’ve never been anywhere.

BYRD: That’s exactly why I should go. Look, Dee, it’s like you said. I don’t have a real job and I don’t have my own family. I have nothing of my own. I need some answers. I need to know what the Hell I’m doing here.

ROSIE: Montana is nice. The people are so sweet.

DEE: Everything is sweet to you!