"There are no rules in outlaw cinema, Miss Whitlock, only edges. We believe technique to be nothing more than failed style. You see, I've had a vision. And that vision is called 'Ultimate Reality.' The rest of our film is shot in real life, with real people, and yes, with real terror."
Morty Comix # 2307 was left in an empty phone book case at a McCleary, Washington phone booth. Also left by previous visitors was 46 cents in change and an empty, soggy cigarette pack.
"Haven't you heard of a 'subtext'? Very fashionable now. In fact I remember advising you to use the word twice in every paper when I was guiding you through your finals."
"I've often speculated why you don't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the Romantic in me."
"Yeah, yeah / You can call it single-payer or Canadian way / Only socialized medicine will ever save the day! Come on now, lemme hear that dirty word - SOCIALISM!"
"Here I was complainin' about loss of pride and how life had treated me, and now I realized-- I never had any pride. And much of how life had treated me had been good. The bulk of the bad was my own damn fault. Should've fired Colonel Parker by the time I got in the pictures. Old fart had been a shark and a fool, and I was even a bigger fool for following him. If only I'd treated Priscilla right. If I could've told my daughter I loved her. Always the questions. Never the answers. Always the hopes. Never the fulfillments."