Basketball Diaries

Jim:
And in the next life, father, I'M gonna have the PADDLE.

Jim:
You gotta have presence on the court. Presence like a cheetah rather than a chimp. Sure, they both got it, but Chimpy gotta jump his nuts around to get it. The shy cheetah moves with total nonchalance, stickin' it to them in his sexy, slow strut. Me? I play like a cheetah.

Jim:
Gee whiz, ma, we oughtta have these heart to heart talks more often, they're good for us.

Jim Carroll:
I felt dazed, like I just came out of a 4 hour movie I didn't understand.

Jim:
I was just gonna sniff a bag but one guy says if you're gonna sniff you might as well pop it and another guys says if you gonna pop it you might as well mainline.

Jim:
Just my own naked self and the stars breathing down, it's beautiful.

Jim:
All I've been doing is reading this diary wondering how the hell I'm still alive?

Jim Carroll:
I just wanna be pure, I just wanna be pure.

Jim Carroll:
You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies... so we can dance.

Mickey:
I'll tell you what, if our school was this nice I would go there more than once a week.

Jim Carroll:
Time sure flies when you're young and jerking off.

Reggie Porter:
Hey white boy! Are you ready for your beatin'?

Jim Carroll:
Don't let your mouth get you into something your ass can't handle.

Diane Moody:
Who's the whore now?

Jim:
...did I ever tell you about the first time I did heroine?

"It was a dream not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. there was a girl next to me who was not beautiful until she smiled and i felt that smile. Come at me in heat waves following, soaking through my body and out my fingertips in shafts and color and I knew..somewhere in the world..somewhere... there was love for me."