A Scanner Darkly Quotes

Luckman: What if they come in through the back door or the bathroom window like that infamous Beatles song?


Fred: What does a scanner see? Into the head? Into the heart? Does it see into me? Clearly? Or darkly?


Luckman: Well! So much for our great trip to San Diego Bob, I told you we should have gone to San Francisco.
Barris: What like going to San Francisco would not have caused this to happen?
Luckman: Yeah because when you're going north, it screws this way, and when you're going south it screws that way!


Fred: [voiceover] What does a scanner see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does it see into me? Into us? Clearly or darkly? I hope it sees clearly because I can't any longer see into myself. I see only murk. I hope for everyone's sake the scanners do better, because if the scanner sees only darkly the way I do, then I'm cursed and cursed again.


Barris: There's only one thing we can do to thwart the plot of these albino shape-shifting lizard BITCHES!


Barris: I'm gonna squash you like... like a bug.
Luckman: Yeah, what kind?
Barris: A... fucked up, bitch beetle.


Fred: Whatever it is that's watching... it isn't human.


Barris: Gentlemen, you are about to witness for approximately sixty-one cents, the perfect homemade silencer.
[gun goes off, loudly]
Freck: That sure is some silencer.


Barris: I could be mur... dered.


Barris: This is a world getting progressively worse. Can we not agree on that?
Barris: [turns to waitress] What's on the dessert menu?


Medical Deputy #2: Damage has taken place to the normally dominant left hemisphere, and the right hemisphere is attempting to compensate.
Fred: The two hemisphere in my brain... are competing?
Medical Deputy #2, Medical Deputy #1: [in unison] Yes.


Medical Deputy #1: You know, Fred, if you keep your sense of humor like you do, you just might make it.
Fred: Make it? Make what? The team? The chick? Make good? Make do? Make out? Make sense? Make money? Make time? Define your terms. The Latin for 'make' is facere, which always reminds me of fuckere, which is Latin for 'to fuck', and I have been getting jack shit in that department as of late.


Luckman: If I knew it was harmless I would have killed it myself.


Luckman: You are a MONSTER!
Barris: You're... a billy goat.


Fred: There is no sheep.