Factotum - Commit Fully to Your Pursuits
Henry Chinaski: [voiceover]
If you are 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 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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Factotum - The Complexity of a Poem Described
Henry Chinaski: [voiceover]
A poem is a city filled with streets and sewers. Filled with saints, heros, beggars, madmen. Filled with banality and booze. Filled with rain and thunder and periods of drought. A poem is a city of war. It's a barbershop filled with cynical drunks. A poem is a city. A poem is a nation. A poem is the world.
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Factotum - Changing Appearances and Shifting Dynamics
Henry Chinaski: [voiceover]
I bought some expensive clothes and a good pair of shoes. The owner of the bike supply house didn't look so powerful anymore. Manny and I took a little longer with our lunches and came back smoking good cigars. The new life didn't sit well with Jan. She was used to her four fucks a day and also used to see me poor and humble.
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Factotum - Dreams of Luxury and Comfort
Henry Chinaski: [voiceover]
That scene in the office stayed with me. Those cigars, the fine clothes. I thought of good steaks, long rides up winding driveways that led to beautiful homes. Ease. Trips to Europe. Fine women.
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Factotum - The Perks of a Leisurely Life
Henry Chinaski: [voiceover]
I understood too well that great lovers were always men of leisure. I fucked better as a bum than as a puncher of timeclocks.
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Factotum - Life's Struggles in a Small World
Henry Chinaski: [voiceover]
The racetrack crowd is the world brought down to size, life grinding against death and losing. Nobody wins finally, we are just seeking a reprieve, a moment out of the glare.
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Factotum - Desire for simplicity and escape
Henry Chinaski:
All I want to do is get my check and get drunk.
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Factotum - Self-Reflection on Change and Identity
Henry Chinaski: [voiceover]
I decided to clean up the apartment. I thought I must be turning into a fag.
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Factotum - The Necessity of Words in Creation
Henry Chinaski: [voiceover]
Even at my lowest times, I can feel the words bubbling inside of me. And I had to get the words down or be overcome by something worse than death. Words not as precious things but as necessary things. Yet when I begin to doubt my ability to work the word I simply read another writer and then I know that I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself: to do it right, with power and force and delight and gamble.
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Factotum - The Weight of Resentment Over Time
Henry Chinaski: [voiceover]
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.
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Factotum - A Complex Reflection on Intimacy and Pain
Henry Chinaski: [voiceover]
Jan was an excellent fuck. She had a tight pussy. And she took it like it was a knife that was killing her.
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Factotum - The Perils of Compromising Artistic Integrity
Henry Chinaski: [voiceover]
As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Writing can trap you. Some writers tend to write what has pleased their readers in the past. They hear accolades and believe them. There's only one final judge of writing, and that is the Writer. When he is swayed by the critics, the editors, the publishers, the readers; then he is finished. And, of course, when he is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.
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Albino Alligator - A Plan for Deception and Escape
Guy Foucard:
Tell them you will let go of the hostages one-by-one. Then, instead of releasing us, release yourself.
Milo: [slow realization]
Yeah. We, uh, pretend we'rethe hostages.
Guy Foucard:
And then... tie us up. And, uh... be gone before they come in.
Dova:
What do you think?
Law:
Hey, I'm a sociopath, you know what I think.
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Albino Alligator - A Decision to Withdraw from Danger
Dova:
Where are you going?
Milo:
I don't wanna be part of this. I'm turning myself in.
Dova: [pointing a gun]
Don't make me do it!
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Albino Alligator - Coffee Request Sparks Tension Between Characters
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Albino Alligator - Flirting with Tension and Humor
Janet Boudreaux: [mocking his tip]
Oh, you are a big spender. I like that in a man.
Dova:
Now I just don't know what it's gonna take to make you shut up.
Janet Boudreaux:
If you don't bite, then don't bark, doggie dog.
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Target - Driving Responsibilities in Uncertain Times
Chris Lloyd:
Look, I don't know who you were in the old days but don't you think I should do the driving now?
Walter Lloyd:
Just don't worry, okay? I think I can handle it.
Chris Lloyd:
Alright. Here we go to Hamburg at 20 miles an hour.
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Target - Questioning Identity in New Circumstances
Walter Lloyd:
They gave us new papers, new jobs, new names. The works... everything.
Chris Lloyd:
New names?
Walter Lloyd:
Yeah.
Chris Lloyd:
Oh, Oh. Wait a minute. We were at the hotel and Taber asked you, "What name?" This is not my name? What's my name?
Walter Lloyd:
Derek, Derek Potter. I'm Duncan. This is where the "Duke" comes from.
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Target - Addressing Concerns About Family and Drinking
Chris Lloyd:
Tourists? We're not talking about tourists here, we're talking about mom! And I know you, you don't drink unless you're nervous.
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Singles - Cliff Poncier Discusses Citizen Dick's Music Identity
Club Interviewer:
Talking here with Cliff Poncier. Cliff, any comments on the "Seattle Sound" and Citizen Dick's place in it?
Cliff Poncier:
Well, I don't like to reduce us to just being part of the "Seattle Sound." I'd like to think of us as expanding more. Like, we're huge in Europe right now. I mean, we've got records... uh, a big record just broke in Belgium.
Club Interviewer:
Now, a song like "Touch Me, I'm Dick" is about... what?
Cliff Poncier:
Well, I think "Touch Me, I'm Dick," in essence, speaks for itself, you know. I think that, you know, that's basically what the song is, um... about... is about, you know... I-I think a lot of people might think it's actually about, you know,"My name is Dick, and, you know, you can touch me," but, I think, you know, it can be seen either way.
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Singles - Body Image and Relationship Perceptions
Janet Livermore:
Are my breasts too small for you?
Cliff Poncier:
Sometimes.
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Singles - Navigating Truth in Relationships
Cliff Poncier:
Look, Janet you know I see other people still. You do know that don't you?
Janet Livermore:
You don't fool me.
Cliff Poncier:
Janet, I could not be fooling you less.
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You, Me and Dupree - Bathroom Incident and Buffalo Wings Regret
Carl:
What you did in the bathroom last night was disgusting.
Dupree:
I know, I'm never eating buffalo wings again.
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You, Me and Dupree - Ape-Man Comparison in Domestic Life
Carl:
He's never truly been domesticated. He's like the ape-man of Borneo.
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You, Me and Dupree - Insurance Advice on Unusual Claims
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You, Me and Dupree - Misunderstandings in Love and Friendship
Dupree:
Carl, Carl! Wait, what are you doing?
Carl:
I'm running... trying to gain my wife back!
Dupree:
Carl... you have it all wrong. I'm trying to steal your wife. All I am is that loveable fuck-up that everyone can help. You are just the loveable guy that is lucky for having a wife like Molly.
Carl:
I got news for you, Dupree. You're not that loveable.
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You, Me and Dupree - A Surprising Talent Revealed in Conversation
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You, Me and Dupree - Misplaced Origins of Dupree's Island Life
Neil:
How the hell did Dupree wind up on the wrond island?
Carl:
Dupree was born on the wrong island.
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You, Me and Dupree - A Testicle's Worth in Comparison
Carl: [[Lance Armstrong]
And this whole ] thing...
Dupree:
You leave Lance out of this! He's doing more with one testicle than you and I could do with three!
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You, Me and Dupree - Debate Over Favorite Movies Among Friends
Carl: [[Roman Holiday; [Fletch]
What's with this ] obsession? Your favorite movie is ].
Dupree:
It's in my top five, but it's not my favorite.
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Wild Things - The Insights of a Guidance Counselor
Sam Lombardo: [taking off Kelly's panties]
Guidance counselors get to find out all sorts of interesting things.
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There's Something About Mary - Assessing Relationship Options and Preferences
Pat Healy: [while spying on Mary]
Husband... negative. Children and a Labrador... negative. Tight little package... affirmative.
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Drugstore Cowboy - The Struggles of an Aging Priest
Bob:
Father Murphy? Hey Tom.
Tom the Priest:
Well well. Bad Bobby Hughes. Imagine seeing you here after all these years.
Bob:
You live here too?
Tom the Priest:
I have nowhere else to go. There is no demand in the priesthood for elderly drug addicts.
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Drugstore Cowboy - The Cost of a Drug Lifestyle
Drug Counselor:
Have you ever been convicted of a felony?
Bob:
Yeah, a few times.
Drug Counselor:
What were they? What felonies were you convicted of?
Bob: [pauses; Gets up]
What do you want? You want my life story? I'm a junkie, I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle. But it just didn't pay off. You know, you don't see my kind of people. Because my kind of people don't beg dope, they go out and get it.
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Drugstore Cowboy - Dialogue on exploitation and self-defense
David: [while selling drugs, eyes Nadine]
How much do you want for that foxy female?
Bob: [pauses]
Hey what do you think I am, some closet pimp? I've never heard such a violation of women's rights in all my life! Just out of curiosity, how many bags of speed would you give me for this girl?
David: [Reaches his hand out to touch Nadine]
I don't know...
Nadine: [Hits him]
You little twerp, you touch me and I'll knock your block off!
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Drugstore Cowboy - Confrontation Over Warrant and Threats
Bob:
You got a warrant?
Gentry: [draws his gun and points it at Bob]
Yeah, I got a warrant. I got it pasted on the end of one of these slugs. Now you give me any more shit, and I give you a good close look at one of em.
Bob: [[Mickey Spillane]
Heavy, man. You guys been reading too much ] or something?
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Drugstore Cowboy - Unspoken Rules and Their Consequences
Rick:
Jesus, Bob, you never told us anything about not mentioning dogs.
Bob:
The reason nobody mentioned dogs, Rick, is that to mention the dog would have been a hex in itself.
Rick:
All right, well, now we are on the subject, are there any other stupid things we aren't supposed to mention that will affect our future?
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The Outsiders - A Call to Fight for Johnny
Dallas Winston:
We gotta win that fight tonight. We gotta get even with those Socs! Let's do it for Johnny, man. We'll do it for Johnny!
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Herbie Fully Loaded - Trip Murphy's Belief in an Alive Car
Trip Murphy:
That car is alive! You gotta believe me. It's mocking me! I'm telling you! That car is alive! Look! It's doing it again!
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