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But then they danced down the street like dingledodies,
and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after
people who interest me, because the only people for me
are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk,
mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time,
the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but
burn, burn, burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like
spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue
centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
--from On the Road by Jack Kerouac

"Maybe it's you fuckers," Fred said, "who're seeing the
universe backward, like in a mirror. Maybe I see it right."
"You see it both ways."
"Which is the -- ?"
--from A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

Oh, yes. You had to admire the way perfectly innocent
words were mugged, ravaged, stripped of all true meaning
and decency, and then sent to walk the gutter for
Reacher Gilt, although "synergistically" had probably
been a whore from the start.
--from Going Postal by Terry Pratchett

And if that wasn't funny, there were lots of things
that weren't even funnier.
--from Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

"Enough of this melodramatic foolishness! For today,
many events will occur. Indeed, many an event worthy
of the anger your mediocrity has aroused in my bosom."
--the false Dr. Maillard, Juan Lopez Moctezuma's "The Mansion of Madness"

"Wussitude draws bullies like zombies to a MENSA convention."
--Herman W. Pointdexter, in the comic book 'Mail-Order Ninja'

"All my life I've had the fastest hands,
but at being good, I was always a little too slow."
--Roland Deschain of Gilead, in Stephen King's The Wolves of the Calla

"You shoot me in a dream, you'd better wake up and apologize."
--Mr. White, 'Reservoir Dogs'

"An irony. It means you have achieved in disgrace
what I have always aspired to be."
--Lieutenant Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation

"It's my candy bar. And I'll do what I want with it."
--Charlie Bucket, 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' (2005)

"You gotta ride that wave. You gotta suck that lozenge.
'Cause if you don't, who will?"
--The Tick

"I'll show them! I'll show them!
They laughed at Galileo! They laughed at Newton!
They laughed at Einstein! ...Why won't they laugh at me?"
--Dr. Why, "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again"

"My god! It's Einstein's brain's finger!"
--TV's Nick Diamond, Celebrity Deathmatch

"Beware of books that will blow your brain. That's
just common sense, people. Sometimes you're riding along
in an violent adventure and you say 'oh crap, I just
blew my brain' and then you're done, you're finished,
no more fun for you. The hell ride is over."
--Ethan Kaye, ethankaye.net

"This. Is what. You get. For fucking. Around.
With the Yakuzas. ...Go home to your mother!"
--The Bride, Kill Bill

(So THAT'S what spotting a contradiction feels like...)
--Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

"When the Katamari came for the pushpin, I said nothing
because it was not as big as me. When the Katamari came
for the spatula, I was silent because I was heavier than
the spatula, and he rolled it right up. When the Katamari
came for the dog, cat and walrus, I was silent, and he
rolled them right up..."
--Kenton DeAngeli

"All right. I'm gonna give you a little feedback?
Since you seem to be proceeding through life like a cat
without...whiskers? Perpetually caught behind the refrigerator."
--Robert Downey, Jr. as Barris, "A Scanner Darkly"

"Now, you may look...around...and see two groups here:
white-collar, blue-collar. But I don't see it that way.
And you know why not? Because I am collar-blind."
--Michael Scott, 'The Office'

"See, I never gain an ounce because, you know,
my anxiety acts like aerobics, so I get the exercise."
--Woody Allen, "Scoop"

"And you, West. Not every situation calls for your
patented approach of 'Shoot First, Shoot Later, Shoot
Some More And Then When Everybody's Dead, Try To Ask
A Question Or Two.'"
--Ulysses S. Grant, "Wild Wild West"

"I try to plan, in your sense of the word, but that
isn't my basic mode, really. I improvise. It's my
greatest talent. I prefer situations to plans, you see..."
--Wintermute, William Gibson's Neuromancer

"You know what you are? ...A fuzzy busybody."
--NWA Chief Tom Weaver, TV version of "Hot Fuzz"

"Man, forensics be jammin' a brother up!"
--Drops, CSI

"I'm always thinking one step ahead...
...like a carpenter that makes stairs."
--Ed Helms, "The Office"

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