"[to Susanna] You think you're free? I'm free! You don't know what freedom is! I'm free! I can breathe! And you - you're gonna go choke on your average fuckin' mediocre life!"

"I know what its like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in, but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside, to try to kill the thing on the inside."

"[narrating] Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is... Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. They were not perfect, but they were my friends and by the '70s, most of them were out living lives. Some I've seen, some never again, but there isn't a day my heart doesn't find them."

"[to Lisa] I've wasted a year of my life here. Maybe everyone out there is a liar. And maybe the whole world is stupid and ignorant. But I'd rather be in it. I'd rather be fucking in it, than down here with you."

"[narrating] Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train was moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the '60's. Or maybe I was just a girl... interrupted."

"Everyone’s into this scene because it’s supposedly the thing to do right now. But you just can’t fake being gay. You know, if you’re gonna claim that you’re gay you’re gonna have to make love in gay style, and most of these kids... just aren’t going to make it. That line, ‘Everybody’s bisexual’, that’s a very popular thing to say right now. Personally, I think it’s meaningless."

"Joseph Beattie - Cooper"

"Emily Woof - Shannon"

"Eddie Izzard - Jerry Devine"

"Micko Westmoreland - Jack Fairy"

"Toni Collette - Mandy Slade"

"Ewan McGregor - Curt Wild"

"Christian Bale - Arthur Stuart"

"Jonathan Rhys Meyers - Brian Slade"

"Cecil [about Curt]: The doctors guaranteed the treatment would fry the fairy clean out of him. But all it did was make him bonkers everytime he heard electric guitar."

"Cecil: Style always wins out in the end."

"Cecil: He was elegance, walking arm in arm with a lie."

"Lou: I want you because you remember."

"Trevor: Rock music has always been a reaction against accepted standards. And homosexuality has been going on for centuries. At the moment having a ‘gay’ image is the ‘in’ thing, just like a few years ago it was trendy to wear a long grey coat with a Led Zeppelin record under your arm."

"Child on Subway: Yesterday upon a stair, I saw a man who wasn't there, He wasn't there again today, How I wish he'd go away."

"Female Narrator: Childhood, adults always say, is the happiest time in life. But as long as he could remember, Jack Fairy knew better."

"Female Narrator: For once there was an unknown land, full of strange flowers and subtle perfumes, a land of which it is joy of all joys to dream, a land where all things are perfect and poisonous."

"Young Boy: Put out the torches. Hide the moon. Hide the stars."

"Oscar Wilde: I want to be a pop idol."

"Female Narrator: Histories like ancient ruins are the fictions of empires. While everything forgotten hangs in dark dreams of the past, ever threatening to return."

"Opening Text: Although what you are about to see is a work of fiction, it should nevertheless be played at maximum volume."

"Softly, he said, "I will mangle your mind"."

"Time, places, people,... they're all speeding up. So, to cope with this evolutionary paranoia, strange people are chosen who, through their art, can move progress more quickly."

"I knew it was over. I just didn't know it was up to me to make it stop."

"It's funny how beautiful people look when they're walking out the door."

"You all know me – subtlety’s my middle name. It’s as subtle as the piece of skin between my vagina and my anus – ooh la! la! Now what’s that called, I can never quite remember...No man’s land? Oh gosh – my guiche, dah-ling!"

"I knew I should create a sensation, gasped the Rocket, and he went out. (Oscar Wilde - from the Remarkable Rocket)"

"Heroin used to be my main man. You could be my main man."

"See yourself on stage, inside-out. Tangled garlands in your hair. Of course, you are pleasantly surprised."

"The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. (Oscar Wilde - from the Picture of Dorian Gray)"

"He thought he fucking was Maxwell Demon in the end – you know? And Maxwell Demon...he thought he was God."

"[Letter to Annette] Dear Annette, I don't know what I could possibly say that would rectify the harm I've caused you. The truth of the matter is that being with you was the only time I have ever been happy. My whole life has been a joke. I prided myself on taking joy in others' misery. Well, it finally backfired. I succeed in hurting the first person I ever loved. Enclosed is my most prized possession. My journal. For a long time I considered it my trophy. A sordid collection of my conquests. If you really want to know the truth then please read it. No more lies. Please give me another chance. I'm a wreck without you."

"Tara Reid - Marci Greenbaum"

"Louise Fletcher - Helen Rosemond"

"Christine Baranski - Bunny Caldwell"

"Sean Patrick Thomas - Ronald Clifford"

"Eric Mabius - Greg McConnell"

"Joshua Jackson - Blaine Tuttle"

"Selma Blair - Cecile Caldwell"

"Reese Witherspoon - Annette Hargrove"

"Ryan Philippe - Sebastian Valmont"

"Sarah Michelle Gellar - Kathryn Merteuil"

"They're old enough to know better, and too young to care."

"Are you in, or are you out?"

"What you can't have, you can't resist."