The Basketball Diaries

\”I felt dazed, like I just came out of a 4 hour movie I didn\’t understand.\”

\”I was just gonna sniff a bag but one guy says if you\’re gonna sniff you might as well pop it and another guys says if you gonna pop it you might as well mainline.\”

\”Just my own naked self and the stars breathing down, it\’s beautiful.\”

\”All I\’ve been doing is reading this diary wondering how the hell I\’m still alive?\”

\”You\’re growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it\’s good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies… so we can dance.\”

\”When I was young, about eight or so, I tried making friends with God by inviting Him to my house to watch the World Series. He never showed.\”

\”Idle time is the devil\’s play thing\”

\”First, it\’s a Saturday night thing when you feel cool like a gangster or a rockstar- just something to kill the boredom, you know? They call it a chipie, a small habbit. It feels so good, you start doing it on Tuesdays… then Thursdays… then it\’s got you. Every wise ass punk on the block says it won\’t happen to them, but it does.\”

(The Basketball Diaries)

Equilibrium

\”Be careful Preston. You\’re treading on my dreams.\”

\”But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.\” I assume you dream, Preston.

\” In the first years of the 21st century, a third World War broke out. Those of us who survived knew mankind could never survive a fourth; that our own volatile natures could simply no longer be risked. So we have created a new arm of the law: The Grammaton Cleric, whose sole task it is to seek out and eradicate the true source of man\’s inhumanity to man – his ability to feel.\”

(Equilibrium)

Bowling for Columbine

\”This was my first gun. I couldn\’t wait to go out and shoot up the neighborhood.\”

\”Well, here\’s my first question. Do you think it\’s kind of dangerous handing out guns at a bank?\”

\”he two by-products of that whole tragedy were, violence in entertainment, and gun control. And how perfect that that was the two things that we were going to talk about with the upcoming election. And also, then we forgot about Monica Lewinsky and we forgot about, uh, the President was shooting bombs overseas, yet I\’m a bad guy because I, well I sing some rock-and-roll songs, and who\’s a bigger influence, the President or Marilyn Manson? I\’d like to think me, but I\’m going to go with the President.\”

\”You don\’t need no gun control. You know what you need? Bullet control. I think all bullets should cost $5000. You know why? If a bullet cost $5000 there\’d be no more innocent bystanders.\”

(Bowling for Columbine)