Tracey Walter Quotes

Librarian Wouldn't you be more comfortable in a research room?

Andrew Beckett No. Would it make you more comfortable?

Miller The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.

Jake Gittes We're talkin about oil here, right, Ty?

Tyrone Otley Obviously. Mr. Rawley believes there's oil under the subdivision. He's endangering hundreds of lives drilling under those homes, with all the seismic activity. He's whipstocking! Someone has got to stop him!

Jake Gittes Well, I can't do that, Ty. Nobody can. Guys like Rawley don't get arrested; they get streets named after them. In this type of situation, it's best just to leave it alone. Rawley's stealin from Berman. It's a big thief stealin from a little thief. Who are we to quarrel?

Miller A lot of people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. Give you an example, show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, "plate," or "shrimp," or "plate of shrimp" out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconsciousness.

Malak My cousin's sister's brother never said anything about bars.

Miller There ain't no difference between a flying saucer and a time machine. People get so hung up on specifics they miss out on seeing the whole thing. Take South America for example. South America, thousands of people go missing every year. Nobody knows where they go, they just, like, disappear. But if you think about it for a minute, you realize something. There had to be a time when there was no people, right? Well where did all these people come from, huh? I'll tell you where. The future. And where did all these people disappear to? That's right! And how did they get there? Flying saucers. Which are really..? Yeah, you got it, time machines. I think a lot about this kind of stuff.

Uncle Patch Whitewood Let's me and you go into the next room and start sniffin some ideas.

Malak A fine magician you are! Go back to juggling apples.