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Celine: I've been thinking also about something you said.
Jesse: What's that?
Celine: Just about reincarnation and where all the new souls come through over time. Everybody says they have been the reincarnation of Cleopatra or Alexander The Great. I always want to tell them they were probably some dumb fuck like everybody else. (Ace Goodman)
Philosophy Professor: The reason why I refuse to take existentialism as just another French fashion or historical curiosity is that I think it has something very important to offer us... I'm afraid were losing the real virtues of living life passionately in the sense of taking responsibility for who you are the ability to make something of yourself and feel good about life. Existentialism is often discussed as if it were a philosophy of despair, but I think the truth is just the opposite. Sartre, once interviewed, said he never felt once minute of despair in his life. One thing that comes out from reading these guys is not a sense of anguish about life so much as a real kind of exuberance, of feeling on top of it, its like your life is yours to create. Ive read the post modernists with some interest, even admiration, but when I read them I always have this awful nagging feeling that something absolutely essential is getting left out. The more you talk about a person as a social construction or as a confluence of forces or as being fragmented of marginalised, what you do is you open up a whole new world of excuses. And when sartre talks about responsibilty, he's not talking about something abstract. He's not taling about the kind of self or souls that theologians would talk about. Hes talking about you and me talking, making descisions, doing things, and taking the consequences. It might be true that there are six million people in this world, and counting, but nevertheless -what you do makes a difference. It makes a difference, first of all, in material terms, to other people, and it sets an example. In short, I think the message here is that we shouuld never write ourselves off or see eachother as a victim of various forces. It's always our descision who we are. (Ace Goodman)
Guy Forsyth: Did you ever have a job that you hated and worked real hard at? A long, hard day of work. Finally you get to go home, get in bed, close your eyes and immediately you wake up and realize... that the whole day at work had been a dream. It's bad enough that you sell your waking life for minimum wage, but now they get your dreams for free. (Ace Goodman)
Boat Car Guy: The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure while always arriving. (Ace Goodman)
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Man on the Train: Hey, are you a dreamer?
Wiley: Yeah.
Man on the Train: I haven't seen too many around lately. Things have been tough lately for dreamers. They say dreaming is dead, no one does it anymore. It's not dead it's just that it's been forgotten, removed from our language. Nobody teaches it so nobody knows it exists. The dreamer is banished to obscurity. Well, I'm trying to change all that, and I hope you are too. By dreaming, every day. Dreaming with our hands and dreaming with our minds. Our planet is facing the greatest problems it's ever faced, ever. So whatever you do, don't be bored, this is absolutely the most exciting time we could have possibly hoped to be alive. And things are just starting (Ace Goodman)
Alex Jones: Resistance is not futile, we're gonna win this thing, humankind is too good, we're not a bunch of under-achievers! We're gonna stand up, and we're gonna be human beings. We're going to get fired up about the real things, the things that matter! Creativity, and the dynamic human spirit that refuses to submit. (Ace Goodman)
Alex Jones: What a bunch of garbage; liberal, democrat, conservative, republican. It's all there to control you! Two sides of the same coin. Two management teams bidding for control, the CEO job of Slavery, Incorporated! The truth is out there in front of you, but they lay out this buffet of lies. I'm sick of it, and I'm not going to take a bite out of it, do you got me? (Ace Goodman)
Alex Jones: We have got to realize that we're being conditioned on a mass scale. Start challenging this corporate slave state. (Ace Goodman)
Soap Opera Woman: Excuse me.
Wiley: Excuse me.
Soap Opera Woman: Hey. Could we do that again? I know we haven't met, but I don't want to be an ant. You know? I mean, it's like we go through life with our antennas bouncing off one another, continously on ant autopilot, with nothing really human required of us. Stop. Go. Walk here. Drive there. All action basically for survival. All communication simply to keep this ant colony buzzing along in an efficient, polite manner. "Here's your change." "Paper or plastic?' "Credit or debit?" "You want ketchup with that?" I don't want a straw. I want real human moments. I want to see you. I want you to see me. I don't want to give that up. I don't want to be ant, you know? (Ace Goodman)
Speed Levitch: The ongoing WOW is happening right NOW. (Ace Goodman)
John Christensen: Super perfundo on the early eve of your day. (Ace Goodman)
Guy Forsyth: The worst mistake that you can make is to think you're alive when really you're asleep in life's waiting room. (Ace Goodman)
Young Girl Playing Paper Game: Dream is destiny. (Ace Goodman)
Speed Levitch: Life is a matter of a miracle that is collected over time by moments flabbergasted to be in each others presence. (Ace Goodman)
Guy Forsyth: The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything. (Ace Goodman)
Pinball Playing Man: There's only one instant, and it's right now. And it's eternity. (Ace Goodman)
Quiet Woman at Restaurant: When it was over, all I could think about was how this entire notion of oneself, what we are, is just this logical structure, a place to momentarily house all the abstractions. It was a time to become conscious, to give form and coherence to the mystery, and I had been a part of that. It was a gift. Life was raging all around me and every moment was magical. I loved all the people, dealing with all the contradictory impulses - that's what I loved the most, connecting with the people. Looking back, that's all that really mattered. (Ace Goodman)
Speed Levitch: On really romantic evenings of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion. (Ace Goodman)
Man with the Long Hair: They say that dreams are only real as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life? (Ace Goodman)
Roy Kirkendall: Good night, John Boy.
Donnie Earl: Kiss my ass. (Ace Goodman)
Donnie Earl: Friends? (Ace Goodman)
Darlene: And you call yourself my friend.
Candy: Damn right I do. (Ace Goodman)
Record Company Executive: And what's with the black? You look like you're goin' to a funeral.
Johnny Cash: Maybe I am. (Ace Goodman)
Warden: Don't sing any songs that will remind them they're in prison.
Johnny Cash: What, you think they forgot? (Ace Goodman)
Johnny Cash: Tell me you don't love me
June Carter: I don't love you.
Johnny Cash: Liar. (Ace Goodman)
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