"I've been up and down the four corners of this big old world. I've seen it all and I've done it all. I've fought many a good man, and I've laid many a good woman and if there's one thing I've learned it's.. it's... it's you get over here and you get down there like that an then you blondie... [Fritz starts dragging all three girls to the bed and jump and the and removed their clothes and Fritz removed the bandages Having sexual pleasure with the girls]"

"The love you give is equal to the love you get."

"[yelling at various cops as they chase after him] WE SHALL OVERCOME!"

"[Arriving back at his dorm room, where his roomates ignore him] Hello men... everybody all busy studyin' for the goddamn exams and all? Hey Fuzz, how'd it go with that Dee Dee chick, huh? She's got some bod' you have to admit, heh... ol' Charlene isn't bad either though right?... like, wow. Heinz! You swine, ol' buddy pig, ya groove behind Alvina and get some kicks tonight, huh? [laughs][Scene fades into black]. Bastards... you'd think the goddamn exams were the be-all and, end-all of existence... the cosmic life-force or somethin'. Y'd think they were the frickin' fugitives. Can't even get in a few decent words to a guy... bastards... What a bore they just sit there and take bennies an' stay up all night with their face stuck in a bunch of books an' their thumb up their ass. Oh Yes, yes I remember when the time when it was all very inspiring and enlightening... all this history and literature and sociology sh*t... You think learning is a really big thing an' you become this big f***in' intellectual and sit around tryin' ta out-intellectual all the other big f***in' intellectuals... you spend years and years with your nose buried in these goddamn tomes. While the world is passin' you by... and all the stuff to see and all th' kicks an' girls are all out there... an' ME, a writer an' a poet who should be havin' adventures an' experiencing all the diversities and paradoxes and ironies of life! And passin' over all the roads of the world! An' diggin' all the cities and towns and rives... and the oceans... and making all of them chicks... [Imagines naked woman] As a writer and poet it is my duty to get out there and dig the world... to swing with the whole friggin' scene while there's still time! [Grabs paper] My farting around days are over baby! From this day on I shall live every day as if it was my last! Yeah! Yeah! I must do it! No more the dreary boring classes, the dismal lectures, the sitting around bullsh*tting with pretentious fat-ass hippies, no more the books, the spoutings of a bunch of old farts who think they know the whole goddamn score! [Gathers all the papers into a big pile] Ha Ha! Heh Heh. Heh.[Breathes fire] Oh my God! What have I done? Oh...man. [We see the roof of Fritz's dorm on fire] I've set all my notes and books and stuff on fire an' uh, now I can't study for my exams...An' I'll flunk out an' my folks'll be pissed off as hell... I-I'll get a blanket... the blanket's on fire. Man we'd better call the fire department."

"Mother of God, I'm a f***ing fugitive!"

"Hey, hey, hey, Look at this big f***ing gun! [shoots the toilet] I killed the john! I killed the john!"

"My soul is tormented! I've been up and down the four corners of this big old world! I've seen it all! I've done it all! I've fought many a good man, and laid many a good woman! I've had riches and fame and adventure...I've tasted life to the fullest, and still my soul cries out, yes, cries out in this hungry, tortured, wrecked quest: 'More!'"

"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."

"Joseph Beattie - Cooper"

"Emily Woof - Shannon"

"Eddie Izzard - Jerry Devine"

"Micko Westmoreland - Jack Fairy"

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

"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."

"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."

"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"."

"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."

"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."

"Trust in haste, regret at leisure."

"Charles McKeown - Harvey Lime"

"Barbara Hicks - Mrs. Alma Terrain"

"Jim Broadbent - Dr. Jaffe"

"Kim Greist - Jill Layton"

"Peter Vaughan - Mr. Helpmann"

"Ian Richardson - Mr. Warrenn"

"Michael Palin - Jack Lint"

"Bob Hoskins - Spoor"

"Ian Holm - Mr. M. Kurtzmann"