"Global warming, a sea of pornography, hyper violent video games. It's a world without privacy. Each kid isolated, communicating on media. It's a world without hope!"

"A Mighty Fortress is Our God. That's all organ. Did you know that, uh, Martin Luther wrote that in an outhouse?"

"Even a pastor needs a pastor."

"Every act of preservation is an act of creation. Everything preserved renews creation. It's how we participate in creation."

"The desire to pray itself is a type of prayer. How often we ask for genuine experience when all we really want is emotion."

"Discernment intersects with Christian life at every moment. Discernment. Listening and waiting for God's wish what action must be taken."

"Despair is a development of pride so great that it chooses one's certitude rather than admit God is more creative than we are."

"Maybe I shouldn't care about whether people like me. Did Jesus worry about being liked?"

"These thoughts and recollections are not so different from those I confide to God every morning. When it is possible. When He is listening. This journal is a form of speaking, of communication from one to the other. A communication which can be achieved simply and in repose without prostration or abnegation. It is a form of prayer."

"I know what you want, and I can't bear your concern, your constant hovering, your neediness. You are a constant reminder of my own personal inadequacies and failings. You want something that never was and never will be."

"How easily they talk about prayer, those who have never really prayed."

"Be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world."

"Will God forgive us for what we're doing to his creation?"

"Maria Schneider - Jeanne"

"[as Jeanne puts her hands on his crotch] That is your happiness, and my hap-penis."

"Even if a husband lives 200 fucking years, he'll never discover his wife's true nature. I may be able to understand the secrets of the universe, but... I'll never understand the truth about you. Never."

"Well, first you have to take a hot bath and if you don't you're gonna get pneumonia. Right?... and then you know what happens? You get pneumonia... and then you know what happens? You die! And then, you know what happens then when you die? I get to fuck the dead rat!"

"[to his dead wife at her wake] Our marriage was nothing more than a foxhole for you. And all it took for you to get out was a 10 cent razor and a tub full of water. You cheap, goddamn, fucking, godforsaken whore, I hope you rot in hell. You're worse than the dirtiest street pig anybody could ever find anywhere, and you know why? You know why? Because you lied. You lied to me and I trusted you. You lied and you knew you were lying. Go on, tell me you didn't lie. Haven't you got anything to say about that? You can think up something, can't you? Go on, tell me something! Go on, smile, you cunt! [crying] Go on, tell me... tell me something sweet. Smile at me and say I just misunderstood. Go on, tell me. You pig-fucker... you goddamn, fucking, pig-fucking liar. [sobbing] Rosa... I'm sorry, I... I just - I can't stand it to see these goddamn things on your face! [peels off her fake eyelashes] You never wore make-up... this fucking shit. I'm gonna take this off your mouth, this - this lipstick... Rosa - oh GOD! I'm sorry! I - I don't know why you did it! I'd do it too, if I knew how... I just don't know how... I have to... have to find a way..."

"Olympia is the personification of domestic virtue: faithful, economic and racist."

"It's better not knowing anything."

"[last line of the film] I didn't know his name..."

"Marlon Brando - Paul"

"Jean-Pierre Léaud - Tom"

"Massimo Girotti - Marcel"

"Veronica Lazar - Rosa"

"Maria Michi - Rosa's mother"

"Catherine Allégret - Catherine"

"Darling Légitimus - the Concierge"

"But apart from the film’s many qualities (and I have been able to sketch in only a few of them) there was a special air of excitement that night because there was some doubt if anyone who wasn’t there would ever see the film in its original form. Although shot entirely in Paris, it is an Italo-French co-production, and as such, if it is to benefit from all that the Italian system offers in the way of subsidies etc, it cannot be exported before it is passed by the Italian censorship board. An exception was made for the New York film festival, but the print was whisked in and out of the country too fast for there to be more than the one solitary screening – there was not even a press show. At the same time, the producer Alberto Grimaldi, flew in a half dozen Italian journalists; the idea is that the Italian censorship board is very responsive to foreign opinion. It is generally agreed that Pasolini’s Canterbury Tales would never have got past them if it had not first won the Grand Prize in Berlin. ... What they always can do [the producer and director] if the Italian censors don’t pass the film is to surrender the film’s nationality; it may cost them a little, but they would surely make it up on the film’s American release. But where else can it be shown? Germany, Scandinavia – yes. But France or England: I wonder. It is certainly the best possible test for a censor; everyone here agreed the film is not pornographic. On the other hand, it is graphic and explicit. In fact, it poses something of a quandary. But I dare say it will be solved eventually: Last Tango is manifestly too important a film to be put on the shelf. Meanwhile, the fur is going to fly."

"Gee, I'm really sorry your mom blew up, Ricky. Doctor says she'll be okay, but she won't be able to eat any spicy foods for awhile."

"Rich Little - Yee Sook Ree, Barney Rubble, Principal on Loudspeaker"

"Daniel Schneider - Ricky Smith"

"Laura Waterbury - Mrs. Smith"

"Diane Franklin - Monique Junot"

"Scooter Stevens - Badger Meyer"

"Demian Slade - Johnny Gasparini"

"Kim Darby - Jenny Meyer"

"David Ogden Stiers - Al Meyer"

"Curtis Armstrong - Charles de Mar"

"John Cusack - Lane Myer"

"I want my two dollars!"

"Teenage life has never been darker...or funnier..."

"Insanity doesn't run in the family, it gallops"

"You've blown up your neighbor's mom. Your seven-year-old brother has better luck with women than you do. Your girlfriend has a new boyfriend. Relax, your never "better off dead"."

"Tree Trimmer: [After Lane falls into a dump truck when trying to commit suicide off of a bridge] Man, that's a real shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that."

"Barney Rubble: [on TV] Hey there, Lane. I know this is a little awkward, me being a cartoon and all, I was just wondering how you'd feel if I took out Beth? [laughs]"

"Jenny Myer: [ladling an unidentifiable gelatinous substance onto dinner plates] I got the recipe from a magazine. The mail got wet in the rain, so some of the pages ran together, but what I couldn't read I just... improvised with my own little... creative ideas. It's got raisins in it. You like raisins."

"I think all you need is a small taste of success, and you will find it suits you."

"[giving skiing instructions] Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn."

"This is pure snow. It's everywhere! Have you any idea what the street value of this mountain is?"