"Listen, Cockroach, if you don't stop following me around and bugging me, I'm gonna stuff your nauseating carcass into one of those artillery pieces, pull the lanyard and blow you out to sea. Now do you understand me?"

"Well, sir, it's got to be one of two things. Either you're lying, in which case there'd be no whiskey in that tube- or you're right. I did it all, just as you say. Now, if I was such a Machiavellian, crafty, conniving character as all that, would I be so stupid as to leave whiskey in that tube for you to come along and find it? I don't think so, sir. It stands to reason that thing would be washed with loving care."

"I can't sign that statement. Because there's something in it, that isn't true at all. Sure, Georgie was framed- my hands are clean! Gatt beat him up, those freshmen poured whiskey in him, and Koble carried him down to the quadrangle. And who would believe all this bunk, anyhow? How could I make Gatt beat up Georgie? He's twice my size! And these freshmen, did I hold a pistol to their heads and make them do this? DID I?! Oh, no, no. They're just as guilty as I am."

"I'll be back! I'll get you guys! You can't do this to Jocko DeParis!"

"It's wrong to blame this school, Robert. It ain't the school's fault about Jocko. Shoot, that boy'd been the way he is no matter where he'd gone."

"Well, it's easy for you to talk, 'cause you're plannin' on leavin' anyhow. How about the rest of us? Me and Rog's got a lot to lose. Gonna get s. Credit's gonna be no good at another school. Three years we've spent here ain't gonna amount to a doggone thing."

""THE STRANGE ONE" IS A STRANGE ONE! (original print ad - all caps)"

"You'll never forget BEN GAZZARA as the louse, "Jocko""

"The Most Fascinating Louse You Ever Met!"

"Ben Gazzera - Cadet Sgt. Jocko DeParis"

"Peter Mark Richman - Cadet Col. Laurie Lorger"

"Arthur Storch - Cadet Simmons"

"Paul E. Richards - Cadet Perrin "Cockroach" McKee"

"Larry Gates - Maj. George Avery Sr."

"Clifton James - Col. M.N. Ramsey"

"Geoffrey Horne - Cadet George Avery Jr."

"James Olson - Cadet Roger Gatt"

"Julie Wilson - Peonie (aka "Rosebud")"

"George Peppard - Cadet Robert Marquales"

"My highs compared to my lows are like, one in a million. Eh, not really, I mean, that's in exaggeration... you know, like one in 500."

"Sometimes hate can be the only real thing. You can stop loving someone, but hate can last on forever."

"When I am gone, you will all have this to ponder and maybe realize why I did what I did. A little push in front of other kids is a very big deal, particularly when you know it's gonna happen to you every single day, every single day, every single day, you are almost relieved when it actually happens. You are always waiting, waiting for the next attack. They don't just hurt kids, they make you hurt yourself. I can't take two more years of this, and the more they call me the mad bomber, the more they are scaring themselves. They don't know what I'm capable of, they don't know what I can do, and then there's the sanctuary of home sweet home. So, the play, yes. Mr. do-gooder- why does he even bother? Doesn't he know it's already too late? Sometimes I see the way things could've been, I just wish I could be the person she thinks I am. Kids can be the most ruthless people in the world. They can just be supernaturally cruel. You've got to be a man! Be a man! BE A MAN! Sometimes you just wanna cry. Sometimes hate is the only real thing in the world. You can stop loving someone, but hate seems to go on forever. People respect hate. It speaks, it vibrates. Some people don't even need a gun to hurt you. They use words or laughter. They enjoy watching you bleed to death. They get off watching you fighting back the tears, getting a lump in your throat, blushing, wanting to cry, and they give you a name: Trashcan, pizzaface, loser, faggot, loser, weirdo, spaz, retard. You know the name does something to you. It changes who you are, it alters your molecules and one day you wake up and you look in the mirror and you don't recognize yourself anymore, because you believe them. They win, you lose. You wanna cry, please leave me alone, but nobody listens, because nobody cares, because you don't have a name anymore because they took it away, and then one day they say that name and you hear something go snap. You realize what you gotta do, you gotta take back your name and you've gotta do it in front of the whole school because that's where they took your name away from you. You gotta do it so every kid will remember. This is about justice and after a while you can only think of one way: Jonesboro, Springfield, Paducah, Columbine, a gun, a bomb, instant justice, Ba-bang! But what a rush when they roll out that yellow tape, miles and miles of yellow tape. They won't have enough when I'm finished. So when these hallways are flooded with rivers of blood, when these hallways are choked with their corpses in body bags you all say oh what a tragedy, oh what a tragedy, but possibly after viewing my tapes, you won't be so quick to judge. Maybe that's why I was put in this earth. So consider this my last will and testament."

"This play is the best way to know how to look into a kid's heart."

"It's not what's in a kid's backpack that makes him dangerous, it's what's in his heart."

"Timothy Dalton - King Philip II"

"Nigel Terry - John"

"John Castle - Geoffrey"

"Anthony Hopkins - Richard the Lionheart"

"Katharine Hepburn - Queen Eleanor"

"Peter O'Toole - King Henry II"

"Kings, queens, knights everywhere you look and I'm the only pawn. I haven't got a thing to lose - that makes me dangerous."

"I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows, and Henry knows we know it. [smiles] We're a knowledgeable family."

"So, the royal corkscrew finds me twisted?"

"You're so deceitful you can't ask for water when you're thirsty. We could tangle spiders in the webs you weave."

"I'm locked up with my sons... what mother doesn't dream of that?"

"[Gazing into a mirror] My, what a lovely girl. How could her king have left her?"

"[to Henry, cruelly] I wonder... do you ever wonder... if I slept with your father."

"[to her jewelry] I'd hang you from the nipples, but you'd shock the children."

"Hush dear, mother's fighting."

"[of Henry] He had a mind like Aristotle and a form like mortal sin."

"I even made poor Louis take me on Crusade. How's that for blasphemy. I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn... but the troops were dazzled."

"My life, when it is written, will read better than it lived. Henry Fitz-Empress, first Plantagenet, a king at 21, the ablest soldier of an able time. He led men well, he cared for justice when he could and ruled, for 30 years, a state as great as Charlemagne's. He married out of love, a woman out of legend. Not in Alexandria, or Rome, or Camelot has there been such a queen. She bore him many children... but no sons. King Henry had no sons. He had three whiskered things but he disowned them. [to his sons] You're not mine! We're not connected! I deny you! None of you will get my Kingdom, I leave you nothing and I wish you plague! May all your children breach and die! [he storms out the corridor, turns and looks back] My boys are gone. I've lost my boys. [looks skyward] You dare to damn me, do you? Well, I damn you back! GODDAMN YOU! [in tears] My boys are gone. I've lost my boys. Oh, Jesus, all my boys..."

"[to her sons] Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war, not history's forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of government, nor any other thing. We are the killers. We breed wars. We carry it like syphilis inside. Dead bodies rot in field and stream because the living ones are rotten. For the love of God, can't we love one another just a little? That's how peace begins. We have so much to love each other for. We have such possibilities, my children. We could change the world."