Due to the numerous references throughout the film and given that i believe everyone should read it:
The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock
T.S. Eliot
follow this link (or past it into the browser: http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html
I never tire of reading this poem, nor do I ever cease to marvel at the ability of a 19-yr-old poet to capture so brilliantly the regrets of a middle-aged man who never had the courage to pursue his dreams and so wonders what his predictable life has meant.
I do not seek to understand so that I may believe, but I believe so that I may understand.
Eliot lived as so few do
standing in a rain storm
Waiting 2 get struck by lightning
I'm gonna come at you like a spider monkey. --Texas Ranger