Inherent Vice (film)

""C'est la vie" — Que se-fucking sera sera."

"She came along the alley and up the back steps the way she always used to. Doc hadn't seen her for over a year. Nobody had. Back then it was always sandals, bottom half of a flower-print bikini, faded Country Joe & the Fish t-shirt. Tonight she was all in flatland gear, hair a lot shorter than he remembered, looking just like she swore she'd never look."

"Back when they were together she could go weeks without anything more complicated than a pout. Now she was laying some heavy combination of face ingredients on Doc that he couldn't read at all."

"Doc ran through all the things he hadn't asked Shasta. Like how much she'd come to depend on Wolfmann's guaranteed level of ease and power? And least askable of all, how passionately did she really feel about old Mickey? Doc knew the likely reply, "I love him", what else? With the unspoken footnote that the word these days was being way too overused."

""Inherent vice" in a maritime insurance policy is anything that you can't avoid. Eggs break, chocolate melts, glass shatters, and Doc wondered what that meant when it applied to ex-old-ladies"

"Was it possible that at every gathering, concert, peace rally, love-in, be-in, freak-in, here up north, back east, where ever, some dark crews had been busy all along reclaiming the music, the resistance to power, the sexual desire from epic to everyday? All they could sweep up for the ancient forces of greed and fear? Gee he thought... I don't know."

"[about the police station] On principle he tried to spend as little time around the glass house as possible. All this strange alternative cop history and cop politics, cop dynasties, cop heroes and evil doers, saintly cops and psycho cops, cops too stupid to live and cops too smart for their own good, insulated by secret loyalties and codes of silence from the world they'd all been given the control."

"Well Mornin' Sam, like a bad luck planet in today's horoscope, here's the old hippie-hating mad dog himself in the flesh: Lieutenant Detective Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen. SAG member, John Wayne walk, flat top of Flintstone proportions and that evil, little shit-twinkle in his eye that says Civil Rights Violations."

"Denis: Like Godzilla says to Mothra man, let's go eat some place."

"Joaquin Phoenix - Larry "Doc" Sportello"

"Josh Brolin - Det. Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen"

"Owen Wilson - Coy Harlingen"

"Katherine Waterston - Shasta Fay Hepworth"

"Reese Witherspoon - Deputy D.A. Penny Kimball"

"Benicio del Toro - Sauncho Smilax, Esq."

"Jena Malone - Hope Harlingen"

"Joanna Newsom - Sortilège"

"Jordan Christian Hearn - Denis"

"Hong Chau - Jade"

"Jeannie Berlin - Aunt Reet"

"Maya Rudolph - Petunia Leeway"

"Michael K. Williams - Tariq Khalil"

"Michelle Sinclair - Clancy Charlock"

"Martin Short - Dr. Rudy Blatnoyd"

"Sasha Pieterse - Japonica Fenway"

"Martin Donovan - Crocker Fenway"

"Eric Roberts - Michael Z. "Mickey" Wolfmann"

"Serena Scott Thomas - Sloane Wolfmann"

"Yvette Yates - Luz"

"Andrew Simpson - Riggs Warbling"

"Jefferson Mays - Dr. Threeply"

"Keith Jardine - Puck Beaverton"

"Peter McRobbie - Adrian Prussia"

"Sam Jaeger - Agent Flatweed"

"Timothy Simons - Agent Borderline"