- [first lines]
- Placid Lake: I try to find the positives in my experiences
- Young Placid: [dressed in a frilly dress for his first day of school, and about to be pushed onto the playground by his hippie mother] Mummy, I *can't*.
- Sylvia Lake: Darling, just remember you're challenging their pre-conceived notions of sexuality.
- Bozo: [trying to bed Placid's platonic girlfriend] You've got a plutonic thing, right?
- Placid Lake: *Plu*tonic?
- Bozo: You don't root?
- Placid Lake: No.
- Bozo: Good. But man, I just can't seem to break through.
- Placid Lake: That surprises me. You're a suave bastard.
- Placid Lake: [after winning a prize for making a feel-good sellout video about his school] Leni Riefenstahl would have been proud.
- [last lines]
- Placid Lake: I'm going to find the positives in my experiences.
- Gemma Taylor: What's the plan now?
- Placid Lake: I don't have one.
- Placid Lake: You hate that guy, don't you?
- Joel: If I could get away with it, I'd kill him, have his windpipe bronzed and wear it on the chain around my neck.
- Joel: Then one day, your wife looks up at you and, apropos of nothing she says, when did all the interesting parts of you die off?