Quotes from Pilot
Garrity: "My collar bones are going. You see?"
Mrs. Brown: "Before you can be admitted, I need to ask you a couple of questions. May I have your name?"
Guy: "Ronald Reagan McDonald Giuliani."
Garrity: "Yes, yes much more powerful, longer-lasting, and earth-shattering orgasms, if you must know. Even five months pregnant, Abe, I can assure you that I get it better than you give it. No question."
Banger: "You'd be upset if you lost your monkey too."
Banger to Mr. Lupinta: "Smoking's a dirty filthy habit."
Wendall: "A is for Addiction, B is for Beta Blockers, C is for Compulsion, D for Delusions, E is for Electro convulsive therapy, F is for Fear, G is for Grandiose Delusions, H is for Hallucinations, Insomnia, Judgement, Klienfelders syndrome, Lithium, Mania, Narcissism, Obsession, Panic Disorder, Quinzipants, Restraints, S is a world to itself with Schizophrenia, Seizures, Sexual dysfunction, Sleep deprivation, Substance abuse, and the big S, Suicide, T is for Tourrette's Syndrome, U is for Ulcers, V is for Violent behavior, W, Withdrawal, X, Xanax, Y is all the yellow-bellied head shrinkers that have pulled and pushed and stalled and stoked me since I was old enough to pee standing up, and Z is for Atlas who along with myself, signed onto the arduous task of supporting the entire planet as punishment for siding with his brother Titans in their war against the Cyclops releasing, thunderbolt releasing, ruler of all gods, Zeus."
Matthews: "A real wrist-cutter, that's a special breed of cat. Let me see this? You see, we see lots of cutters, mostly depressed teenage girls mad at their parents or their boyfriends, spiritually connected to Kurt Cobain, that type of thing. And they'll get ahold of a steak knife or a bottle opener or a piece of glass, rarely a razor blade. Anyway, they'll get ahold of something sharp and they'll have a little go at it. We call these hestitation marks. A little blood, a little pain, and a whole lot of drama. Very few wrist-cutters really go deep, Mr. Butowsky, very few. You went deep. You went very deep."
Banger: "I am the keeper of the gate. I am in charge of the gate at the hospital. That's what we call it, off the record, Barbarians' gate. When the pressures of modern society become too great for a person, when one's chemical dynamic becomes such that they are unbalanced, that they cease painting withing the lines, they come to us. We, uh... these are the people that society would prefer just go away. The shadow people. The shadow people that project upon us their shadow and remind us just how tenuous mental health is. Our worst fears. They remind us how easy it can be to slip. That's what I do."
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