- Joseph: You think when you reach a certain age things will start making sense, and you find out that you are just as lost as you were before. I suppose that's what damnation is. The pieces of your life never to come together, just splashed out there.
- (voice): Once the soul was perfect and had wings, it could sour into haven that only creatures with wings can be. But the soul lost its wings and fell to earth where it took a earthly body, now, while it lives in this body no outward sign of wings can be seen yet the roots of its wings are still there... and we see a beautiful woman or a man, the soul remembers the beauty it used to know in haven, and begins to spout and that makes the soul want to fly but it cannot yet it is still too weak so that man keeps staring up to the sky at a young bird, he lost all interest in the world around...
- Helen: What do you want from me? To weave a spell over you? To make you dream? Dreams are nice. But you can't live in them.
- Rick: My hope. You gave me peace. You gave me what the world can't give. Mercy. Love. Joy. All else is cloud. Mist. Be with me. Always.
- Fr. Zeitlinger: Seems you're alone. You're not. Even now, He's taking your hand and guiding you by a way you cannot see. If you're unhappy, you shouldn't take it as a mark of God's disfavor. Just the contrary. Might be the very sign He loves you. He shows His love not by helping you avoid suffering, by sending you suffering. By keeping you there. To suffer binds you to something higher than yourself, higher than your own will. Takes you from the world, to find what lies beyond it. We are not only to endure patiently the troubles He sends, we are to regard them as gifts. As gifts more precious than the happiness we wish for ourselves.
- Rick: You see the palm trees? They tell you anything's possible. You can be anything. Do anything. Start over.
- Rick: [voice over] I've spent 30 years. Not living life. But ruining it. For myself. And others. I can't remember - a man I wanted to be.
- Model Agency Woman: You've been waiting to do this your whole life. Look into the camera. Fucking make it hard. You're a dirty, fucking bitch. Do it! That's good. Work those muscles. You're like a 1975 housewife who takes steroids and fucks girls during the day.
- Elizabeth: You're so quiet. You keep everything to yourself. You have love in you. I know it. When I'm with you, I forget everything else.
- Elizabeth: You're afraid you're making me break my vows. But the vow comes out of the love behind it. Love's so rare that when you find it - you can't doubt it. Let it go.
- Joseph: Remember the story I used to tell you when you were a boy - about a young prince. A knight, sent by his father, the King of the East, west into Egypt - to find a pearl. A pearl from the depths of the sea. But when the prince arrived, the people poured him a cup that took away his memory. He forgot he was the son of the king. Forgot about the pearl - and fell into a deep sleep. The king didn't forget his son. He continued to send word, messengers, guides. But the prince - slept on.
- Karen: [dancing in a night club in a sexy outfit] You have a darkness on you. A little shadow. You live in a little fantasy world, don't you?
- Rick: [watching her] Don't you?
- Karen: Yes.
- [smiles]
- Karen: Because it's so much more fun.
- Rick: Do you enjoy yours?
- Karen: Uh-huh.
- [she nods yes, then no]
- Karen: It changes every day. I can be whatever I wanna be. Don't forget that. You can be whoever you want to be.
- [laughs, kisses Rick's eyebrow, smiles]
- Karen: You can be an asshole. You can be a saint. You can be a - you can be a God. I'll tell you, but don't tell anyone, it's a secret.
- Bud Wiggins: There's a ketamine party we're having next week. Have you ever heard of that? You're here for 20 seconds and then, wham, you're out. You're in another room.
- (voice): I wonder where I was in all that time. A sleepwalker. In love with the world, in love with love.
- Tonio: They are like flavors. Sometimes you want raspberry, then after a while you want some strawberry.
- Joseph: My son - you are just like I am. Can't figure your life out? Can't put the pieces together? Just like me. A pilgrim on this earth. A stranger. Fragments. Pieces - of a man.
- Karen: Real life's so hard to find... Where is it?... How do you get there? Get out of the big cloud of dust everybody's kicking up. The only way out is in. *Breathe.* Your mind's a theater. I say, try it all! Why not?
- Barry: Same today? Don't know how many times I thought I'd die right here on the street. I picked him up and I had him in my car, and a cop pulled us over. I tell him, "I'm a Methodist minister and I'm looking after you, alright?" And I got off.
- Della: I see how you look at me. You think I could make you crazy? Crack you out of your shell? Make you suffer?
- Rick: You walked around like nothing had happened. You were always doing it, pretending everything was okay. But it wasn't.
- Barry: It's good of you to invite me out here. Show me what it's like to live a normal life. Somethin' wrong? What's up?
- Tonio: The world's a swamp. You have to fly over it. Fly. High up - where everything is just - a speck.
- Model Agency Woman: Lean into her. Put your breasts against her back. Don't look sweet. Don't look scared. You like this, Helen. You like it. You like it.