Although I couldn't figure out what this movie was about (it seemed like an excuse to watch Matt Dillon chain smoke all the flippin' time and not much more), I chuckled when at his parents' house, right before being kicked out by his father, addressing his father by his first name and saying,
"And I also need a piece of ass." ROFL
Only line in the movie that had me chuckling out loud!
"Amazing how grimly we hold on to our misery, the energy we burn fueling our anger. Amazing how one moment, we can be snarling like a beast, then a few moments later, forgetting what or why. Not hours of this, or days, or months, or years of this... But decades. Lifetimes completely used up, given over to the pettiest rancor and hatred. Finally, there is nothing here for death to take away."
share"If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs. And maybe your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance. Of how much you really want to do it. And you'll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods. And the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is."
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After a rally of drinking with Jane, both taking turns to vomit in the toilet
J: "How do you feel?"
B: "I feel.... bad"
later Jane says:
"The bible says love thee neighbor"
B: "It also means leave them alone"
Or when he is cleaning that big statue in the museum "visions of peace"
B:"Why was I chosen to do this? Why couldn't I be inside writing editorials about corruption giving readers my visions of peace? Questions like this demanded deeper consideration"
He left all the cleaning stuff and the statue an went for a drink.
Bravo!!!!
"My beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world."
Did he say this in this film, I can't remember.
He didn't say it, but it was the title of the story that was accepted by Black Sparrow Press just when he became homeless at the end.
From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
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"I've slept longer than you've been alive."
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This movie is literally an hour and half of quotable lines. My favorite one (that hasn't already been mentioned) is
"I understood too well that the great lovers of the world were always men of leisure. I f--ked better as a bum than as a puncher of time-clocks".