Prior Walter quotes from Angels in America

Prior Walter

This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all, and the dead will be commemorated and will struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come.

Prior Walter

[to Louis] You cry, but you endanger nothing in yourself. It's like the idea of crying when you do it. Or the idea of love.

I'm a Mormon.

Prior Walter

I'm a homosexual.

Oh. In my church we don't believe in homosexuals.

Prior

In my church we don't believe in Mormons.

Prior Walter

Out of my way, I wanna meet my replacement [pushes past Belize into Joe Pitt's office] Oh, God.

Yes, can I help you?

Prior

[stares] I'm a prophet.

What?

Prior

PROPHET! PROPHET! I PROPHESY, I HAVE SIGHT, I SEE! What do you do?

[slightly stunned] I'm a clerk.

Prior

Oh, big deal, a clerk? You, what, you file things? You better be keeping a file on the hearts you break. That's all that counts in the end. You'll be having bills to pay in the world to come. You and your friend, the Whore of Babylon. Sorry, wrong room.

Prior

[back outside with Belize] He's the Marlboro Man!

Prior

Home on the range!

Chaps and spurs.

Prior

Mega-butch! He made me feel beyond nelly, like I've got wispy daisies sprouting out my ears.

Prior Walter

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Well, that's a stupid thing to do.