"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!"

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"Now Michael, I can promise you that whatever despair you feel about bringing a child into this world cannot equal the despair of taking a child from it."

"The man who says nothing always seems more intelligent. Why couldn't I just keep silent?"

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

"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."

"Courage is the solution to despair, reason provides no answers. I can't know what the future will bring; we have to choose despite uncertainty. Wisdom is holding two contradictory truths in our mind, simultaneously, Hope and despair. A life without despair is a life without hope. Holding these two ideas in our head is life itself."

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

"I have decided to keep a journal. Not in a word program or digital file, but in longhand, writing every word out so that every inflection of penmanship, every word chosen, scratched out, revised, is recorded. To set down all my thoughts and the simple events of my day factually and without hiding anything. When writing about oneself, one should show no mercy. I will keep this diary for one year; 12 months. And at the end of that time, it will be destroyed. Shredded, then burnt. The experiment will be over."

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

"Even a pastor needs a pastor."

"Dakin Matthews - Bob"

"J. David Krassner - Tiller"

"Ben Piazza - Kramer"

"Brian Benben - Martin"

"Henry Judd Baker - Xavier"

"Rachel Ryan - Karen Peluso"

"Luca Bercovici - Lenny"

"M. Emmet Walsh - Richard"

"Tate Donovan - Donald"

"Claudia Christian - Iris"

"Thirty remarkable days in the life of an ordinary man."

"Michael Keaton...in an unexpected film...about thirty remarkable days in the life of an ordinary man."

"Michael Keaton - Daryl"

"Kathy Baker - Charlie"

"Morgan Freeman - Craig"

"Thanks for the compliment, but I know how I look. This is the way I look when I'm sober. It's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say? You see, the world looks so dirty to me when I'm not drinking. Joe, remember Fisherman's Wharf? The water when you looked too close? That's the way the world looks to me when I'm not drinking."

"From the days of wine and roses finally comes a night like this."

"You remember how it really was? You and me and booze — a threesome. You and I were a couple of drunks on the sea of booze, and the boat sank. I got hold of something that kept me from going under, and I'm not going to let go of it. Not for you. Not for anyone. If you want to grab on, grab on. But there's just room for you and me — no threesome."

"This, in its own terrifying way, is a love story."

"My name is Joe Clay. I'm an alcoholic."

"It's different. It's daring. Most of all, in its own terrifying way, is a love story..."

"I walked by Union Square Bar. I was going to go in. Then I saw myself, my reflection in the window, and I thought, "I wonder who that bum is." And then I saw it was me. Now look at me. I'm a bum. Look at me! Look at you. You're a bum. Look at you. And look at us. Look at us. Come on, look at us! See? A couple of bums."

"Lynn Borden (uncredited) - party guest"

"Lisa Guiraut - Belly Dancer"

"Jennifer Edwards - Debbie Clay at age 5"

"Mel Blanc - TV Cartoon Characters (voice)"

"Jack Riley - Waiter"

"Gail Bonney - Gladys the Cleaning Lady"

"Ken Lynch - Liquor Store Proprietor"

"Katherine Squire - Mrs. Nolan"

"Tom Palmer - Ballefoy"

"Debbie Megowan - Debbie Clay"