"It's been ages since I sat in front of the TV, just changing channels to find something. You see the whole culture - Nazis, deodorant salesman, wrestlers, beauty contests, the talk show. Can you imagine the level of a mind that watches wrestling, hmm? But the worst are the fundamentalist preachers, third-rate con men, telling the poor suckers that watch them that they speak for Jesus and to please send in money. Money, money, money! If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up."

"You missed a very dull TV show on Auschwitz. More gruesome film clips, and more puzzled intellectuals declaring their mystification over the systematic murder of millions. The reason they can never answer the question "How could it possibly happen?" is that it's the wrong question. Given what people are, the question is "Why doesn't it happen more often?" Of course it does, in subtler form."

"One day about a month ago, I really hit bottom. You know, I just felt that in a Godless universe, I didn't want to go on living. Now I happen to own this rifle, which I loaded, believe it or not, and pressed it to my forehead. And I remember thinking, at the time, I'm gonna kill myself. Then I thought, what if I'm wrong? What if there is a God? I mean, after all, nobody really knows that. But then I thought, no, you know, maybe is not good enough. I want certainty or nothing. And I remember very clearly, the clock was ticking, and I was sitting there frozen with the gun to my head, debating whether to shoot.[The gun fires accidentally, shattering a mirror] All of a sudden, the gun went off. I had been so tense my finger had squeezed the trigger inadvertently. But I was perspiring so much the gun had slid off my forehead and missed me. And suddenly neighbors were, were pounding on the door, and, and I don't know, the whole scene was just pandemonium. And, uh, you know, I-I-I ran to the door, I-I didn't know what to say. You know, I was-I was embarrassed and confused and my-my-my mind was r-r-racing a mile a minute. And I-I just knew one thing.I-I-I had to get out of that house, I had to just get out in the fresh air and-and clear my head. And I remember very clearly, I walked the streets. I walked and I walked. I-I didn't know what was going through my mind. It all seemed so violent and un-unreal to me. And I wandered for a long time on the Upper West Side, you know, and-and it must have been hours. You know, my-my feet hurt, my head was-was pounding, and-and I had to sit down. I went into a movie house. I-I didn't know what was playing or anything.I just, I just needed a moment to gather my thoughts and, and be logical and put the world back into rational perspective. And I went upstairs to the balcony, and I sat down, and, you know, the movie was a-a-a film that I'd seen many times in my life since I was a kid, and-and I always, uh, loved it. And, you know, I'm-I'm watching these people up on the screen and I started getting hooked on the film, you know. And I started to feel, how can you even think of killing yourself. I mean isn't it so stupid? I mean, l-look at all the people up there on the screen. You know, they're real funny, and-and what if the worst is true.What if there's no God, and you only go around once and that's it. Well, you know, don't you want to be part of the experience? You know, what the hell, it's-it's not all a drag. And I'm thinkin' to myself, geez, I should stop ruining my life - searching for answers I'm never gonna get, and just enjoy it while it lasts. And, you know, after, who knows? I mean, you know, maybe there is something. Nobody really knows. I know, I know maybe is a very slim reed to hang your whole life on, but that's the best we have. And then, I started to sit back, and I actually began to enjoy myself."

"A week ago I bought a rifle, I went to the store - I bought a rifle! I was gonna, you know, if they told me I had a tumor, I was gonna kill myself. The only thing that might've stopped me - might've - is that my parents would be devastated. I would have to shoot them also, first. And then I have an aunt and uncle - you know - it would've been a blood bath."

"Please God, help me get out of this. I swear I'll go all over the world telling people not to screw the boss's wife."

"Cindy Crawford - Herself (uncredited)"

"Mercedes Ruehl - Sheila"

"Christopher Murney - Barney Rattigan"

"Elizabeth Franz - Grace Foster"

"Drew Snyder - Burt Foster"

"Carol Ann Susi - Jean"

"Gerry Bamman - Art Thomas"

"Fred Gwynne - Donald Davenport"

"John Pankow - Fred Melrose"

"Margaret Whitton - Vera Pemrose Prescott"

"Richard Jordan - Howard Prescott"

"Helen Slater - Christy Wills"

"Michael J. Fox - Brantley Foster"

"[on entering his newly rented apartment] All right, listen up. If there are any bugs in here, or rats, or anything that has more legs than I do, you just stay on your side of the room, okay? I'll stay on mine. I should warn you, I'm packing an iron."

"Fisher Stevens - Eugene Belford (a.k.a. The Plague)"

"Felicity Huffman - Prosecuting Attorney"

"Michael Gaston - Special Agent Bob, U.S. Secret Service"

"Marc Anthony - Special Agent Ray, U.S. Secret Service"

"Wendell Pierce - Special Agent Richard Gill, U.S. Secret Service"

"Penn Jillette - Hal"

"Alberta Watson - Lauren Murphy"

"Lorraine Bracco - Margo Wallace"

"Jesse Bradford - Joey Pardella"

"Laurence Mason - Paul Cook (a.k.a. Lord Nikon)"

"Matthew Lillard - Emmanuel Goldstein (a.k.a. Cereal Killer)"

"Renoly Santiago - Ramόn Sánchez (a.k.a. The Phantom Phreak)"

"Angelina Jolie - Kate Libby (a.k.a. Acid Burn)"

"Jonny Lee Miller - Dade Murphy (a.k.a. Crash Override a.k.a. Zero Cool)"

"Mess with the best, die like the rest."

"There is no right or wrong, only fun and boring"

"You thought your secrets were safe. You were wrong."

"Their crime is curiosity."

"Boot Up or Shut Up!"

"Hack the Planet!"

"Remember, hacking is more than just a crime. It's a survival trait."

"Never again pay for a service that would be free... if it weren't run by profiteering gluttons!"

"Now I keep trying to save you from yourself, but you gotta stop letting your mama dress you, man! You're hopeless!"

"Yo.... I kinda feel like God!"

"Listen, we got a higher purpose here, alright? A wakeup call for the Nintendo Generation. We demand free access to data, well, it comes with some responsibility. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child, but when I became a man I put away childish things. [Pause] What... It's Corinthians I, Chapter 13, verse 11, no duh. Come on."

"Look at that pooper. Spandex; it's a privilege, not a right!"

"FYI man, alright. You could sit at home, and do like absolutely nothing, and your name goes through like 17 computers a day. 1984? Yeah right, man. That's a typo. Orwell is here now. He's livin' large. We have no names, man. No names. We are nameless!"

"Kid, don't threaten me. There are worse things than death, and uh, I can do all of them."

"You wanted to know who I am, Zero Cool? Well, let me explain the New World Order. Governments and corporations need people like you and me. We are Samurai... the Keyboard Cowboys... and all those other people out there who have no idea what's going on are the cattle... Moooo."

"God wouldn't be up this late."

"There is no right or wrong, just fun and boring."