"Coach: [to Louden] Now, I remember the first time you walked in here and asked me to let you wrestle. You still had hay in your hair. What a surprise you turned out to be, darn near going the distance your first year."

"What a blast to the First Amendment! The first thing they do is shut down the press and imprison the intellectuals. I LOVED YOUR PIECE ON THE CLITORIS! I SHOWED IT TO MY MOTHER!"

"[Just before Louden is set to wrestle Shute] Hey, Louden? [Louden glances up] Kick his ass."

"[to Louden] First time I've ever went to a wrestling match. It wasn't what I expected. I guess I expected some macho violence trip, but it was all right, you know? Guess I just didn't understand."

"[to Louden] Don't you ever try that again! I choose who I'm going to be with and what I'm going to do. I'll never be with any foulmouthed kid jock who thinks a stiff cock is the height of romance. Part of being a man, asshole, is knowing what a woman wants and respecting that."

"But all I ever settled for is that we're born to live and then to die, and... we got to do it alone, each in his own way. And I guess that's why we got to love those people who deserve it like there's no tomorrow. 'Cause when you get right down to it - there isn't."

"[about Carla] She's got all the best things I like in girls and all the best things I like in guys."

"Time, places, people,... they're all speeding up. So, to cope with this evolutionary paranoia, strange people are chosen who, through their art, can move progress more quickly."

"Joseph Beattie - Cooper"

"Emily Woof - Shannon"

"Eddie Izzard - Jerry Devine"

"Micko Westmoreland - Jack Fairy"

"Toni Collette - Mandy Slade"

"Ewan McGregor - Curt Wild"

"Christian Bale - Arthur Stuart"

"Jonathan Rhys Meyers - Brian Slade"

"Cecil [about Curt]: The doctors guaranteed the treatment would fry the fairy clean out of him. But all it did was make him bonkers everytime he heard electric guitar."

"Cecil: Style always wins out in the end."

"Cecil: He was elegance, walking arm in arm with a lie."

"Lou: I want you because you remember."

"Trevor: Rock music has always been a reaction against accepted standards. And homosexuality has been going on for centuries. At the moment having a ‘gay’ image is the ‘in’ thing, just like a few years ago it was trendy to wear a long grey coat with a Led Zeppelin record under your arm."

"Child on Subway: Yesterday upon a stair, I saw a man who wasn't there, He wasn't there again today, How I wish he'd go away."

"Female Narrator: Childhood, adults always say, is the happiest time in life. But as long as he could remember, Jack Fairy knew better."

"Female Narrator: For once there was an unknown land, full of strange flowers and subtle perfumes, a land of which it is joy of all joys to dream, a land where all things are perfect and poisonous."

"Young Boy: Put out the torches. Hide the moon. Hide the stars."

"Oscar Wilde: I want to be a pop idol."

"Female Narrator: Histories like ancient ruins are the fictions of empires. While everything forgotten hangs in dark dreams of the past, ever threatening to return."

"Opening Text: Although what you are about to see is a work of fiction, it should nevertheless be played at maximum volume."

"Softly, he said, "I will mangle your mind"."

"I knew it was over. I just didn't know it was up to me to make it stop."

"It's funny how beautiful people look when they're walking out the door."

"You all know me – subtlety’s my middle name. It’s as subtle as the piece of skin between my vagina and my anus – ooh la! la! Now what’s that called, I can never quite remember...No man’s land? Oh gosh – my guiche, dah-ling!"

"Heroin used to be my main man. You could be my main man."

"See yourself on stage, inside-out. Tangled garlands in your hair. Of course, you are pleasantly surprised."

"The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. (Oscar Wilde - from the Picture of Dorian Gray)"

"He thought he fucking was Maxwell Demon in the end – you know? And Maxwell Demon...he thought he was God."

"Everyone’s into this scene because it’s supposedly the thing to do right now. But you just can’t fake being gay. You know, if you’re gonna claim that you’re gay you’re gonna have to make love in gay style, and most of these kids... just aren’t going to make it. That line, ‘Everybody’s bisexual’, that’s a very popular thing to say right now. Personally, I think it’s meaningless."

"I knew I should create a sensation, gasped the Rocket, and he went out. (Oscar Wilde - from the Remarkable Rocket)"

"Time never dies, the circle is not round."