Mickey Rourke credited as playing...
Henry
- Wanda Wilcox: I can't stand people, I hate them.
- Henry: Oh yeah?
- Wanda Wilcox: Do you hate them?
- Henry: No, but I seem to feel better when they're not around.
- Henry: This is a world where everybody's gotta do something. Y'know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody's gotta do something, they gotta be something. You know, a dentist, a glider pilot, a narc, a janitor, a preacher, all that.
- Henry: [sighs] Sometimes I just get tired of thinking of all the things that I don't wanna do. All the things that I don't wanna be. Places I don't wanna go, like India, like getting my teeth cleaned. Save the whale, all that, I don't understand that.
- Jim: You're not supposed to think about it. I think the whole trick is, not to think about it.
- Henry: [voice over] And as my hands drop the last desperate pen, in some cheap room, they will find me there and never know my name, my meaning, nor the treasure of my escape.
- Tully: Why did you send your stuff to us?
- Henry: Well, I liked the title of the mag. It boggled my scrotum.
- Tully: Why don't you stop drinking? Anybody can be a drunk.
- Henry: Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.
- Henry: That's it.
- Wanda Wilcox: That's what?
- Henry: I'm broke. Can't buy another drink.
- Wanda Wilcox: You mean you don't have any money?
- Henry: No money, no job, no rent. Hey, I'm back to normal.
- Henry: [screaming] Why did it have to be Eddie? He symbolizes everything that *disgusts* me.
- Wanda Wilcox: [quietly] What.
- Henry: Obviousness. Unoriginal macho energy. Ladies man...
- Wanda Wilcox: You're right. He's not much.
- Henry: [to his own bloody face as reflected in the bathroom mirror] Nothing but the dripping sink. Empty bottle. Euphoria. Youth fenced in, stabbed and shaved. Taut words propped up to die
- Wanda Wilcox: [talking about the rumor that her neighbor killed people] Maybe he had a reason to kill those people.
- Henry: Yeah well most people think they do.