"What's that smell in this room? Didn't you notice it, Brick? Didn't you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room?... There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity... You can smell it. It smells like death."

"But there's one thing you can't buy in a Europe firesale or in any other market on earth. And that's your life. You can't buy back your life when it's finished... The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. And if he's got money, he buys and he buys and he buys. The reason why he buys everything he can is because his crazy hope is one of the things he buys will be life everlasting — which it never can be."

"Mendacity. What do you know about mendacity? I could write a book on it...Mendacity. Look at all the lies that I got to put up with. Pretenses. Hypocrisy. Pretendin' like I care for Big Mama, I haven't been able to stand that woman in forty years. Church! It bores me. But I go. And all those swindlin' lodges and social clubs and money-grabbin' auxiliaries. It's-it's got me on the number one sucker list. Boy, I've lived with mendacity. Now why can't you live with it? You've got to live with it. There's nothin' to live with but mendacity. Is there?"

"Mark: Why our entire year's strewn on the cutting room floor of memory..."

"Bohiemians LA VIE BOHÈME!!!!!"

"Benny You wanna write songs and produce film? You need somewhere to do it, it's what we use to dream about so think before you poo poo it you'll see boys. You'll see boys!"

"Roger and Mark: Dying in America, at the end of the millennium. We're dying in America, to come into our own. And when you're dying in America, at the end of the millennium, you're not alone. I'm not alone!"

"Roger and Mark: For once the shadows gave way to light. For once I didn't disengage!"

"Roger and Mark: You're living in America, at the end of the millennium. You're living in America, where it's like The Twilight Zone."

"Joanne and Mimi: I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had! Someone to live for, unafraid to say 'I love you!'"

"Maureen's Mom: [to Mark] Maybe now you two can get back together."

"Alexi Darling: How much did I love your footage? So much, so mu - it reminded me of the Berkley days, fighting the good fight. Kudos, kudos."

"All: To people living with, living with, living with... not dying from disease! Let he among us without sin be the first to condemn! La vie Boheme!"

"All: Actual reality! Act up! Fight AIDS!"

"Angel and Collins: With a thousand sweet kisses, I'll cover you."

"Angel and Collins: I think they meant it, when they said you can't buy love. Now I know you can rent it, a new lease you are, my love."

"All: Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care? Will I wake tomorrow from this nightmare?"

"Gordon: Now, I find some of what you teach suspect, because I'm used to relying on intellect. But I try to open up to what I don't know, because reason says I should have died three years ago."

"Mark's Dad: Look, Mark. I'm sorry that Maureen dumped you. I say, "C'est la vie." Let her be a lesbian! She doesn't know what she's missing!"

"Mark, Roger, and Tenants: How can you connect in an age when strangers, landlords, lovers, your own blood cells betray?"

"Roger and Mark: How do you leave the past behind when it keeps finding ways to get to your heart? It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out till you're torn apart!"

"Benny? THAT FUCK!"

"The enemy of Avenue A....we'll stay."

"So much more original than any of us. You'd find an old table cloth on the street and make a dress then...then the next year sure enough they'd be mass producing them at the Gap.....you always said how lucky you were that we were all friends.....but it was us baby.....who were the lucky ones...."