"I don't have to listen to anything you have to say."

“I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.”

“My mother always says: "You know better, so you'll be punished. Your friends don't know better, so they won't be punished. They can go snatch chains and they'll be fine. But if you snatch chains, you'll end up in jail because you know better."”

“I want to be stereotyped. I want to be classified. I want to be a clone. I want to be masochistic. I want to be sadistic. I want a Suburban Home. I don't want no hipppie pad; I want a house just like Mom and Dad.”

Source : "Suburban Home". Song by Tony Lombardo, November 1, 1982.

“The mind can be convinced, but the heart must be won.”

“Suppressing your hurts is like not tending to a bullet wound. Eventually you will bleed out. Dont numb pain, express it.”

“The Seydoux-Schlumberger industrial empire won't make $100 million movies. Hollywood does that much better. But you don't make movies because of their budgets, you make movies because you believe in them. Setting limits doesn't matter to me.”

Source : Source: variety.com

“In Hollywood, most things are based on looks, so I'd love to do something that has nothing to do with how I look.”

Source : "Teri Polo: Teri on a Tear". Interview with Dennis Hensley, movieline.com. September 1, 2001.

“An excess of science will leave none of us alive.”

Source : "Space Chantey" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 4), 1968.