Samuel Beckett quotes from China Beach

McMurphy

What's going on? Hey c'mon you know sometimes when things are rough it helps to just talk.

Beckett

It does?

McMurphy

Sure.

Beckett

How?

McMurphy

Well, for instance: today hasn't been that great of a day for me, right? And if I just carried it around not get it off my shoulders than tomorrow I'll wake up and it'll be worse. You know, like, Natch will still be gone… and I'll wonder for how long… I... I'll worry about him all day… wonder why I put him off for so long… and that day will go by, all the wounded men, men I don't know… so young so damaged, so much pain… away from people who care about them or even know them. And there was this one man I…. did care about or could've maybe even…. Love… and didn't.

Beckett

[looking more depressed] Thanks for coming by Mc. M. it really helped.

Laurette

What's the matter with these guys anyway?

They all crossed a line. They broke a bond. Now they can't be trusted. You see, now they'd do anything. They'd drag anybody down who tries to help them. Drag them straight to hell.

Beckett

I thought that's where we were.

Beckett

Welcome to the G.I.U. man. You'll get used to it.

That's what my momma said about the army.

Beckett

That's what MY momma said about the army.

That's what my momma said about everything I'd ever do for the last 19 years.

McMurphy

What?

Dr. Richard

A Little mix up, paper work problem, irregulations.

Beckett

We lost one.

McMurphy

What?

Dr. Richard

A body. We lost a body.

Natch

Did you look under the bed?

McMurphy

On my shift?

Beckett

I never got it.

Dr. Richard

And if he left the hospital where did he go? Surfing?

McMurphy

You notice I'm not laughing.