"Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention."

"[from his journal] On the subway today, a man came up to me to start a conversation. He made small talk, a lonely man talking about the weather and other things. I tried to be pleasant and accommodating, but my head hurt from his banality. I almost didn't notice it had happened, but I suddenly threw up all over him. He was not pleased, and I couldn't stop laughing."

"[From one of his journals] What sick ridiculous puppets we are / and what gross little stage we dance on / What fun we have dancing and fucking / Not a care in the world / Not knowing that we are nothing / We are not what was intended"

"Fuckin' Dante. Goddamn poetry-writing faggot, piece of shit, fucker! [A cop knocks on the car window and delivers an envelope of CliffsNotes] Good work, officer! Thank you, Lord."

"Who knows. So many freaks out there doin' their little evil deeds they don't wanna do... "The voices made me do it. My dog made me do it. Jodie Foster told me to do it.""

"If we catch John Doe and he turns out to be the Devil… I mean, if he’s Satan himself, that might live up to our expectations. But… he’s not the Devil. He’s just a man."

"If John Doe's head splits open and a UFO should fly out, I want you to have expected it."

"Kevyn Major Howard - Hawkins"

"Albert Popwell - Horace King"

"Michael Currie - Lt. Donnelly"

"Audrie J. Neenan - Ray Parkins"

"Bradford Dillman - Captain Briggs"

"Pat Hingle - Chief Lester Jannings"

"Sondra Locke - Jennifer Spencer"

"Clint Eastwood - Insp. 'Dirty' Harry Callahan"

"Two killers are at large. One of them is Dirty Harry."

"Dirty Harry is at it again."

"Note: ranked #6 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema."

"Give me what you got, twat-lips, before I give your face its first period."

"Do you know the emergency phone number for San Francisco General? Well, why don't you call them right now and have them send down an ambulance. Tell them there's two sorry-looking assholes here with multiple contusions and various abrasions and broken bones."

"Listen, punk. To me, you're nothin' but dogshit, you understand? And a lot of things can happen to dogshit. It can be scraped up with a shovel off the ground. It can dry up and blow away in the wind. Or it can be stepped on and squashed. So take my advice and be careful where the dog shits ya!"

"Nancy Parsons - Mrs. Kruger"

"Bette Ford - Leah"

"Just like a young man coming in for a quickie. I feel so unsatisfied."

"It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money."

"We're not playing together. But then again, we're not playing against each other either. It's like the Nature Channel. You don't see piranhas eating each other, do you?"

"I've often seen these people, these squares at the table, short stack and long odds against them. All their outs gone. One last card in the deck that can help them. I used to wonder how they could let themselves get into such bad shape, and how the hell they thought they could turn it around."

"Josh Mostel - Zagosh"

"Melina Kanakaredes - Barbara"

"Paul Sorvino - Russian Thug"

"Gretchen Mol - Jo"

"Martin Landau - Abe Petrovsky"

"Michael Rispoli - Grama"

"Famke Janssen - Petra"

"John Turturro - Joey Knish"

"John Malkovich - Teddy KGB"

"Edward Norton - Lester "Worm" Murphy"

"Matt Damon - Mike McDermott"

"Pick a card, any card"

"Trust everyone... but always cut the cards"

"In The Game Of Life... Play The Cards You're Dealt"

"You've got to play the hand you're dealt."

"Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half-hour at the table, then you are the sucker. Guys around here will tell ya, you play for a living, it's like any other job. You don't gamble, you grind it out. Your goal is to win one big bet an hour, that's it. Get your money in when you have the best of it. Protect it when you don't. Don't give anything away. That's how I paid my way through half of law school. A true grinder. You see, I learned how to win a little at a time. But finally I've learned this: if you're too careful, your whole life can become a fuckin' grind."

"This is where mechanical excellence and 1,400 horsepower pays off."

"Marilyn Manson and Twiggy Ramirez - porn stars"

"(voice only) - Forewoman"

"Boy, that's smooth. Smooth as shit off a duck's ass!"