We have a home here. We think it’s something worth defending.
You fuckin’ people… you have no idea how to defend a nation.
Human decisions are removed from strategic defense.
Mr. McKittrick, after very careful consideration, sir, I’ve come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks.
Now it’s up to you, Charlie, but you might consider cuttin’ the kid a little slack.
I’m disappointed in you, doctors. You’re not very smart. You’re not even as smart as a mouse. Because he knows. Algernon showed me. The answer to the question, ‘Charly Gordon’ is: Charly Gordon is a fellow who will very shortly be what he used to be.
We was always taking long walks, and we was always looking for a guy named “Charlie”.
Charlie don’t surf.
Surfing a tsunami of swagger right now.
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk
I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk
I’m gonna pick me a choice woman and I’m gonna smother her in minks and choke her with diamonds. Boy, I’m gonna be happy.
I am not putting the knock on dolls. It’s just that they are something to have around only when they come in handy… like cough drops.
And you, Lyon, you’d better watch it. Oh, sure, everything’s rosy now. You skip from one thing to another - from one dame to another. But watch it, my friend. Find yourself a good girl. Have kids. Or, one day you’ll wind up alone, like me, and wonder what the hell happened.
Everything’s coming up roses!
I think… I think I’m gonna puke!
Aw, don’t do that, son. I mean all those people down there looking up? The fire chief looking up, his face?
Want a breath mint?
I want a party with roomfuls of laughter.
Get used to disappointment.
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can’t take quiet desperation!
A mad man, your honor, a desperate fool at the end of his pitiful ropes!