"[Discussing Evelyn's birthday party plans over the phone] Congratulations. On a scale of one to ten on the perversity meter you just hit a seventy three."

"Ever see one that starts at the top? 20 stories worth of top."

"Maduka Steady - Omouri"

"Zack O'Malley Greenburg - Lorenzo Odone"

"Don Suddaby - Himself"

"Margo Martindale - Wendy Gimble"

"James Rebhorn - Ellard Muscatine"

"Ann Hearn - Loretta Muscatine"

"Susan Sarandon - Michaela Odone"

"Peter Ustinov - Professor Nikolais"

"Nick Nolte - Augusto Odone"

"Kathleen Wilhoite - Deirdre Murphy"

"Do you know how many children die every year from choking on french fries? Many more than from Adrenoleukodystrophy. You see, ours is what is known as an orphan disease, too small to be noticed, too small to be funded, especially with the iron hand of "Reaganomics"."

"Gerry Bamman - Doctor Judalon"

"Jim Carroll - Frankie Pinewater, Credited as James Dennis Carroll"

"Michael Rapaport - Skinhead"

"Ernie Hudson - Reggie Porter"

"Manny Alfaro - Manny"

"Mark Wahlberg - Mickey"

"James Madio - Pedro"

"Rory Cooper - Father McNulty"

"Cynthia Daniel - Winkie"

"Patrick McGaw - Neutron"

"Lorraine Bracco - Mrs. Carroll"

"Juliette Lewis - Diane Moody"

"Brittany Daniel - Blinkie"

"Bruno Kirby - Swifty"

"Marilyn Sokol - Chanting Woman"

"Alexander Chaplin - Bobo"

"Time sure flies when you're young and jerking off."

"I got six months in Riker's Island for assault, robbery, resisting arrest, and possession of narcotics. I sweated out a horrible cure and stayed clean the whole stretch, even though it's been easier to get good junk in here than it is on the street. Shit, it's been hard, man. All I've been doing is reading these diaries and wondering how the hell I'm still alive, and even if I care. Suffice to say that I'm finished with the asshole bandits of shower-room rape, and suffice to say that those swine guards won't draw blood from my ankles again. Suffice to say that I've been just thinking about dumb stuff, like what a nice concept it is to have a godmother and a godfather, wondering who my godparents might be. My mom won't visit me here, so I guess I'll just have to wait till I get home to ask."

"Know this. There's different types of users of junk. You got your rich dilettante square-ass who dabbles now and then and always has enough money to run off to the Riviera if he feels he's fucking around to the danger point. Street junkies hate these pricks, but they're always suckers, and their money makes them tolerable. Then you got your upper-middle-class Westchester preppies... same as the others, basically. What they're good for is opening their mommy and daddy's eyes to this social virus and putting pressure on the government to do something about it. Then there's us street kids. Start fucking around very young, 13 or so... We think we all got it under control and won't get strung out. This rarely works. I'm living proof. But in the end, you just got to see the junk as another 9-to-5 gig. The hours are just a bit more inclined to shadows."

"I felt dazed, like I just came out of a 4 hour movie I didn't understand."

"You gotta have presence on the court. Presence like a cheetah rather than a chimp. Sure, they both got it, but Chimpy gotta jump his nuts around to get it. The shy cheetah moves with total nonchalance, stickin' it to them in his sexy, slow strut. Me? I play like a cheetah."

"I was just gonna sniff a bag but one guy says if you're gonna sniff you might as well pop it and another guys says if you gonna pop it you might as well mainline."

"I'll tell you what, if our school was this nice I would go there more than once a week."

"All I've been doing is reading this diary wondering how the hell I'm still alive?"

"When I was young, about eight or so, I tried making friends with God by inviting Him to my house to watch the World Series. He never showed."

"You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies... so we can dance."

"The true story of the death of innocence and the birth of an artist"

"First, it's a Saturday night thing when you feel cool like a gangster or a rockstar- just something to kill the boredom, you know? They call it a chippie, a small habit. It feels so good, you start doing it on Tuesdays... then Thursdays... then it's got you. Every wise ass punk on the block says it won't happen to them, but it does."

"Every punk on the block says it's not going to happen to them... but it does."

"Michael Imperioli - Bobby"

"Leonardo DiCaprio - Jim Carroll"

"Bill Goldberg - Romeo"

"Daniel von Bargen - General Radford"

"Justin Lazard - Captain Blackburn"

"Kiana Tom - Maggie"

"The time of man has ended. In his arrogance, he has sealed his own destruction by creating his superior. We will bring order to the chaos. We will act without emotion. Spread from this place. Secure raw materials to increase our numbers geometrically. We will then utilize their own weapon system to defeat them. Their fear and mortality will be their weakness. They cannot defeat us. When I was a machine, I yearned to be a man. Νow I'm better than both. The created, has become the creator. Bring me Luc Devereaux."