Gretchen: Donnie Darko? What the hell kind of name is that?

It's like some sort of superhero or something Donnie: What makes you think I'm not? " I wanted to lose it all... my wealth, my estate, my sanity. Most of all, I lon ged for death. I know that now. I invited it. A release from the pain of living. My invitation was open to anyone. To the whore at my side. To the pimp that fol lowed. But it was a vampire that accepted it. " Some might say,they don't believe in Heaven.Go and tell it to the man that lives in Hell. Max hoped Mary would write again. He'd always wanted a friend. A friend that was n't invisible, a pet or rubber figurine. Violence is one of the most cinematic things you can do with film. It s almost as if Edison and the Lumiere brothers invented the camera for filming violence. Directors don t get better as they get older. They get worse they get out of touch . There is this weird thing about movie-making where you kind of figure out how to do it. You re just pulled along by the experience there s no way you can predict what s going to happen. " I'm prepared to scour the the Earth for that motherfucker. If Butch goes to In dochina, I want a nigger waiting in a bowl of rice ready to pop a cap in his ass . " - I think I cracked a rib. - Giving me oral pleasure? - No,retard.From the fight. " A minute ago this was the safest job in the world. Now it's turning into a bad day in Bosnia. " When you dance with the devil,you wait for the song to stop. Avi: Should I call you Bullet? Tooth? Bullet Tooth Tony: You can call me Susan if it makes you happy. Bullet Tooth Tony: You should never underestimate the predictability of stupidit y. Avi: Tony. Bullet Tooth Tony: What? Avi: Look in the dog. Bullet Tooth Tony: What do you mean "look in the dog?" Avi: I mean open him up. Bullet Tooth Tony: It's not as if it's a tin of baked beans! What do you mean "o pen him up"? Avi: Yes, London. You know: fish, chips, cup 'o tea, bad food, worse weather, Ma ry fucking Poppins... LONDON. Turkish: [narrating] My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. M y parents to be were on the same plane when it crashed. That's how they met. The y named me after the name of the plane. Not many people are named after a plane crash. That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but I know he was really named after a famous 19th century ballet dancer. Turkish: Have you ever crossed the road, and looked the wrong way? A car's nearl

y on you? So what do you do? Something very silly. You freeze. Your life doesn't flash before you, 'cause you're too fuckin' scared to think - you just freeze a nd pull a stupid face. Johnny Quid: You see that pack of Virginia killing sticks on the end of the pian o? Pete: Yes. Johnny Quid: All you need to know about life is retained in those four walls. Yo u will notice that one of your personalities is seduced by the illusions of gran deur - the gold packet of king size with a regal insignia, an attractive implica tion towards grandeur and wealth, the subtle suggestion that cigarettes are inde ed your royal and loyal friends, and that, Pete, is a lie. Johnny Quid: Your other personality is trying to draw your attention to the flip side of the discussion, written in boring bold black and white, it's a statemen t that these neat little soldiers of death and in fact trying to kill you and th at, Pete, is the truth. Johnny Quid: Oh, beauty is a beguiling call to death and i'm addicted to the swe et pitch of its siren. Johnny Quid: That that starts sweet ends bitter, and that which starts bitter en ds sweet. Johnny Quid: That is why you and i love the drugs and that is also why I cannot give that painting back. now please, pass me a light. Pete: Oh you are something special, Mr johnny quid. Mumbles: One Two: e. Look, Mumbles: Who No, get All the fuck is Sydney Shaw? Sydney Shaw is a pseudonym you idiot. They never use their real nam around here and let me have a look, okay? right... Where did he learn a word like pseudonym?

God ain't the only one who's everywhere. "If you talk to God you're religious. If God talks to you, you're psychotic." Nash: I don't exactly know what I am required to say in order for you to have in tercourse with me. But could we assume that I said all that. I mean essentially we are talking about fluid exchange right? So could we go just straight to the s ex. MIT Student: Can we open up the window, Professor? It's hot in here. John Nash: Your comfort comes second to my ability to hear my own voice. Wanna get high? I'm actually afraid of heights. "I don't believe in God, but if I did, he would be a black, left-handed guitaris t." Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. I'm going to hell in every religion Age is just a number Yea? Jail is just a room God's last name is not "Dammit." Some people talk about finding God - as if He could get lost. The world holds two classes of men -- intelligent men without religion, and reli gious men without intelligence.

"If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be we aring little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses." "I am an atheist still, thank God." Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color. I drink poison then I vomit diamonds. You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven an d hell, but when it comes to this world, dont be an idiot. Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to get you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the street, I know you look both ways. At night,you couldn't see the desert that surrounds Las Vegas. But it's in the d esert where lots of the town's problems are solved. "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate", or "Abandon all hope, ye who enter her e Divine Comedy (Inferno) Lord Henry Wotton: [dismissively] 'Conscience.' It's just a polite word for 'cow ardice.' No civilized man regrets a pleasure. Thou shalt not use poetry, art or music to get into girls pants,use it to get in to their heads. Gossip is the Devil's radio. Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk. so when the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never because a dance with the devil might last you forever don't believe the things you say to yourself so late at night - you are your own worst enemy. Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways? The human body is built to live up to 190 years . We all die young . When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep... and you're never really aw ake. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything's far away. Everything's a copy o f a copy of a copy. It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. "If you can remember the '60s, then you weren't there."