...and he just sat back and stared at the tube, almost interested in what was happening, trying to find the ability to believe in that lie so he could believe the one within.

The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.

... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.

For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.

I guess it could be said that the inspiration for 'Requiem for a Dream' is watching the American dream not only destroy so many lives in the U.S., but infect the rest of the world with its obsession with getting more, ignoring the deadly effect that has on the planet.

I just don't seem to be capable of believing in evil as some separate, distinct power within itself. I guess I'm just not a Southern Baptist or a Fundamentalist. I just don't seem to be capable of believing in it myself, somehow. I don't . . . I can't conceive from my experience how this force of evil can exist without the force of love being right there.