quotes from Angels in America...

[silversolitaire]

"This strange place, in the melting pot where nothing melted."
-- Rabbi Isidor Chemelwitz, Millennium Approaches, Act I, scene 1

"It's the price of rootlessness. Motion sickness. The only cure: to keep moving."
-- Mr. Lies, Millennium Approaches, Act I, scene 3

"Pretend-happy. That's better than nothing."
-- Harper, Millennium Approaches, Act I, scene 5

Harper: "I'm a Mormon."
Prior: "I'm a homosexual."
Harper: "Oh! In my church we don't believe in homosexuals."
Prior: "In my church we don't believe in Mormons."
-- Millennium Approaches, Act I, scene 7

"The mind...shouldn't be able to make up anything that wasn't there to start with, that didn't enter from experience...Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions."
-- Harper, Millennium Approaches, Act I, scene 7

"I usually say, 'Fuck the truth,' but mostly, the truth fucks you."
-- Prior, Millennium Approaches, Act I, scene 7

[Prior, on his sickbed being visited by his 13th century ancestor]
Prior I: "You have no wife, no children."
Prior: "I'm gay."
Prior I: "So, be gay, dance in your altogether for all I care, what that to do with not having children?"
-- Millennium Approaches, Act III, scene 1

Belize: "Louis, you voted for Jesse Jackson. You send checks to the Rainbow Coalition."
Louis: "I'm ambivalent. The checks bounced."
-- Millennium Approaches, Act III, scene 2

"In the new century I think we will all be insane."
-- Woman, Millennium Approaches, Act III, scene 4

[Prior's ancestors watching him dance with the specter of Louis]
Prior I: "Hah. Now I see why he's got no children. He's a sodomite."
Prior II: "Oh be quiet, you medieval gnome, and let them dance."
-- Millennium Approaches, Act III, scene 6