"If you wouldn't open your mouth, everything would be just fine."

"[to his father] I don't know if you'd be particularly interested in hearing anything about me. My life, most of it do…"

"[out of his car during a traffic jam, yelling at other motorists] Ants! Why don't we all line up like a goddamned bun…"

"[to Bobby] I'll go out with you, or I'll stay in with you, or I'll do anything that you like for me to do, if you tel…"

"Palm Apodaca: People. Animals are not like that. They're always cleaning themselves. Did you ever see, umm... pigeons…"

"Catherine Van Oost: You're a strange person, Robert. I mean, what will you come to? If a person has no love for himse…"

"Betty: When I was four, just four years old, I went to my mother and I said, "What's this hole in my chin?" - I saw t…"

"Jack Nicholson - Robert 'Bobby' Eroica Dupea"

"Karen Black - Rayette Dipesto"

"Irene Dailey - Samia Glavia"