Eugene Fitzpatrick Quotes in Until the End of the World (1991)

Eugene Fitzpatrick: I didn't know the cure for the disease of images. All I knew was how to write. But I believed in the magic and healing power of words, and of stories.

Eugene Fitzpatrick: Soon they were hooked; all of them. They lived to see their dreams, and when they slept they dreamed about their dreams. They had arrived at the island of dreams together; but in a short time they were oceans apart. I watched helplessly as Claire and Sam were drowning in their own nocturnal imagery. They ignored each other, and neglected themselves. Dreams which should have been flushed away with the first yawn, were now their only diet; and thus became more concentrated. They made monsters for themselves that they could neither tolerate or do without. They wondered in and out of lost worlds. Feelings and figures emerged from a forgotten past. Their dreams became black holes of isolation. They suffered, finally; from a complete loss of reality.

Eugene Fitzpatrick: 1999 was the year that the Indian nuclear satellite went out of control.

Eugene Fitzpatrick: [looking speculatively at the "Bounty Bear" interface] How much would it take to set myself up with one of those, hard and soft?

Phillip Winter: Oh, you just don't get it! She doesn't want to fuck you, she wants to fuck him!

Eugene Fitzpatrick: I don't think you understand our relationship. Phillip, admit it! You'd love it but you can't afford it!

Eugene Fitzpatrick: [the dream-player is out of battery] It's dead.

Claire Tourneur: I'm dead. My heart is dead!

Eugene Fitzpatrick: She got a job with NASA looking for crimes of pollution. She spent her thirtieth birthday in space.

Eugene Fitzpatrick: Do you love him?

Claire Tourneur: Yes, I do.

Eugene Fitzpatrick: Well, I hope he loves you.

Claire Tourneur: I trusted him.

Eugene Fitzpatrick: Sure, and then he robbed you...

Sam Farber, alias Trevor McPhee: I am neither a Spy or a Jewel Thief!

Eugene Fitzpatrick: What are you, then?