Don.Quijote

"Well, any human being will cast about in a moment of stress. No, the fact is, they're flooding this valley so they can hydroelectric up the whole durn state. Yes, sir, the South is gonna change. Everything's gonna be put on electricity and run on a paying basis. Out with the old spiritual mumbo jumbo, the superstitions, and the backward ways. We're gonna see a brave new world where they run everybody a wire and hook us all up to a grid. Yes, sir, a veritable age of reason. Like the one they had in France. Not a moment too soon."

"I understand what your saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm going to ignore your advice."

"I wonder if the three of us would've been friends in real life. Not as brothers, but as people."

"I'm going to have to science the shit out of this."

"I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can't remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. Do I believe the world's still there? Is it still out there?…Yeah. We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I'm no different…now…where was I?"

"My name is Lester Burnham. This is my neighborhood. This is my street. This is my life. I am 42 years old and in less then a year I will be dead. Of course, I don't know that yet, and in a way, I'm dead already. Look at me, jerking off in the shower. This will be the highlight of my day. It's all downhill from here."

"I haven't slept in a year."

"But I being poor, have only my dreams, I have spread my dreams under your feet, tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

"What am I to her or she to me? Nothing. She's an ordinary roommate. I share rooms with her. Our relationship is normal, conforming. We share nothing but space."

"For someone who was never meant for this world, I must confess I'm suddenly having a hard time leaving it. Of course, they say every atom in our bodies was once part of a star. Maybe I'm not leaving...maybe I'm going home."