"All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go. I don't believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention. I believe that someone should become a person like other people."

"Twelve hours of work and I still can't sleep. Damn. Days go on and on. They don't end."

"Each night when I return the cab to the garage, I have to clean the cum off the back seat. Some nights, I clean off the blood."

"May 10. Thank God for the rain which has helped wash away the garbage and trash off the sidewalks. I'm working long hours now, six in the afternoon to six in the morning. Sometimes even eight in the morning, six days a week. Sometimes seven days a week. It's a long hustle but it keeps me real busy. I can take in three, three fifty a week. Sometimes even more when I do it off the meter. All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. I go all over. I take people to the Bronx, Brooklyn, I take 'em to Harlem. I don't care. Don't make no difference to me. It does to some. Some won't even take spooks. Don't make no difference to me."

"Hey, hey, hey — don't be mean. We don't have to be mean. 'Cause, remember: no matter where you go... there you are."

"Expect the unexpected. He does."

"Your only hope is Buckaroo Banzai."

"You can't see them...but they can see you."

"Beings from Another Dimension have invaded your world."

"It just didn’t get the press or publicity it needed and the picture got lost in the shuffle."

"Radio communication: Horizontal velocity is expanding, over."

"From the "Pinky Caruthers Unknown Facts" DVD feature: There is a term sometimes used at the Banzai Institute: The Three Bs, meaning the Bus, the Bath, and the Bed. That is where the greatest discoveries are made in science. When one is at his most relaxed, the most receptive... that is when a foreign consciousness, a "stray bullet" as B. Banzai calls it, may pop into one's head."

"Sign for Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems: The future begins tomorrow."

"Red Lectroid Spaceship PA System: We are not in the Eighth dimension, we are over New Jersey. Hope is not lost."

"Yoyodyne PA System: The only joy is the joy of duty. Work... work... work... Keep your nose to the grindstone."

"Penny Priddy: I think I'm going crazy... Who's that girl, Buckaroo? What's going on around here? You drag me out of jail, you're... you're like Jerry Lewis, you give me hope to carry on, but... then you leave me in the lurch while you strap on your six-guns! What do you want from me, Buckaroo? Who am I?"

"Hospital PA System: Lithium is no longer available on credit."

"Chase One Helicopter Pilot: This is Chase One. We got his tracks. They go right up to a wall of rock. Holy shit!"

"Hellooo, Mr. Secretary! {finger flex}"

"There is little time. You better come quickly if your planet is still important to you."

"Excuse me, Mr. President. Time is short. In order to prevent John Whorfin's escape, my comrades are at this moment takin' up a geostationary position over New Jersey. De situation is explosive!"

"What are you talking about, man? Some kind of race war in New Jersey?"

"Buckaroo, I don't know what to say. Lectroids? Planet 10? Nuclear extortion? A girl named "John"?"

"{reading from a printed form} "Declaration of War... The Short Form"."

"It's not my goddamn planet. Understand, monkeyboy?"

"Put the snot on the track, John O'Connor."

"Let's go back up to my office and talk about this like two reasonable beings."

"{repeated line} BigbooTAY!"

"{moments before dying in a fiery explosion} Banzai! I'll see you in HELL!!!"

"May I pass along my congratulations for your great interdimensional breakthrough. I am sure, in the miserable annals of the Earth, you will be duly enshrined."

"Home. Home is where you wear your hat. "I feel so broke up...I want to go Home!""

"Jesú Christo! (It) [M]ake the ganglia TWITCH!"

"History is'a made at night. Character is what you are in the dark."

"Sealed with a curse as sharp as a knife: "Doomed is your soul and damned is your life.""

"Laugh(a) while you can, monkeyboy!"

"{dying words} What are y'all lookin' at? You're on the clock. Let's saddle up, huh?"

"I tell ya, if it ain't one thing, it's another."

"The Four Beauties: Mind, Language, Behavior, and Environment"

"The Three Loves: love of others, the love of justice, and the love of freedom."

"A fool can throw a stone into the water which ten wise men cannot recover."

"A thousand pities cannot undo one thoughtless act."

"Asking is a polite way of demanding."

"A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost."

"Live like you're gonna die tomorrow and study like you're gonna live forever."

"The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care."

"Progress Over Protocol."

"Nothing real can defeat us. Nothing unreal exists."

"Those in a hurry show only that the thing they are about is too big for them."

"Know that, as in life, there is much that many have looked upon but few have seen because, as my father told me and his father told him, you will come to learn a great deal if you study the insignificant in depth."

"The Mind's a funny thing . . . in the Summer it longs for Winter. In the Winter it longs for Summer. In the Spring . . . it heads for the Bahamas."