“America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy. ”

“...lonely-chrome America.”

“BUDGE (muffled)No,no,nono.NURSE BAKERI understand what you're trying to say.BUDGEA hideous scream.NURSE BAKERExactly.BUDGEA cry of desperation.NURSE BAKERPerfect.BUDGEA strangled sob. A plea torn from my throat. What sound can I make to convince you I'm not the one you want? A disconsolate sigh? Maybe that's what you want to hear. The smallest human moan imaginable. A whisper in a corner of an unlit room, with curtains blowing in the wind. NURSE BAKERWhat could be more touching?”

“If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.”

“Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.”

“I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.”

“Think of two parallel lines. […] One is the life of Lee H. Oswald. One is the conspiracy to kill the President. What bridges the space between them? What makes a connection inevitable? There is a third line. It comes out of dreams, visions, intuitions, prayers, out of the deepest levels of the self. It's not generated by cause and effect like the other two lines. It's a line that cuts across causality, cuts across time. It has no history that we can recognize or understand. But it forces a connection. It puts a man on the path of his destiny.”