Rory: Rory Gilmore, Yale Daily News. While I agree that there is no greater or more important tool for a free press than confidential sources, I also think it unwise for us to presume from our limited experiences editing college newspapers that we really have any true understanding of what it must feel like when the federal government of the United States puts the screws to you. I just think it would be the height of hubris for us to claim for fact that we know what we would do when faced with that kind of pressure. But that's just one reporter's opinion.

Rory: I just don't care how funny the picture is. If it's not newsworthy - and I can't see how it would be - I would not publish a picture of the university president stuffing his face with key lime pie at the drama club bake sale.
Arthur Gordon: I'm sure President Levin will be pleased to hear that. [laughter]
Rory: If, however, someone pushed key lime pie in the president's face as a statement, that I would print.

Christopher: Okay, so I kept track, wrote 'em down. I got 16 words that she used that I have never heard before.
Lorelai: Perspicacious?
Christopher: 17 words that I have never heard before. My god, she's smart.
Lorelai: She is smart. She's Anthony Michael Hall in Breakfast Club smart.

Zach: I have to talk to you about how it's all feeling wrong, you know. I tried to write a song about it, and I was gonna bring my amp and play it for you. But it was coming out way too emo, so I decided to just say it. I get up in the morning and I don't feel good. I go to work and I don't feel good. I come home and I don't feel good. I brush my teeth and I don't feel good. Then I go to bed and I don't feel good.
Then I wake up and I don't feel good. And then I go to work and I don't feel good.
Babette: You don't feel good, we get it. Go on.
Luke: Hey, is something burning down here?
Babette: Luke, shh!
Luke: Okay, sorry. Go on.
Zach: Right. Where was I? Oh, yeah. Lane, will you marry me?
Lane: What?
Zach: Will you marry me?
Lane: But do you even know what you're saying? I mean, have you even thought about this? [Zach pulls out a ring] Oh, my god, you have thought about this.
Zach: I got it at the pawn shop. It belonged to like an elk or a moose or something. But it looked cool, and I could afford it, so I got it. You're smiling.
Lane: I know.
Zach: Does this mean yes?
Lane: Yes. It means yes.

Lorelai: How could you fire Pepper Pot? He's so cute, and his mother has that skin condition they can't diagnose.
Luke: He never brings what I order. I have 16 pounds of corned beef and no turkey.
Lorelai: But he's so sweet, and his father has that foot-grafting operation coming up next month.
Luke: I can't keep a guy on because his parents are falling apart.
Lorelai: I know, but he tells those funny little limericks, and his sisters were just surgically separated two weeks ago.