The Cure – Movie Quotes

— My mom has me eating lots of vegetables, especially broccoli.
— All I ever eat is candy and I never get sick. Hey, that's it! Somebody gets sick and all they eat is fruits and vegetables, it's the one thing they stop eating!

— Were you having a nightmare or something?
— No.
— What's the matter?
— It happens sometimes. When I wake up, and it's dark... Astronomers believe that the universe is 18 billion light-years across.
— So?
— Suppose you could go another 18 billion light-years. What if there's nothing out there? Suppose you kept going another trillion times further? So far I'd see nothing. Because the light from the universe would be fainter than the faintest star. Infinitely cold. Infinitely black. Sometimes... if I wake up, and it's dark, I get really scared. Like I'm up there, and I'm never coming back.

— The mysterious Dr. Fishburn derives the extract from a plant, found deep in the Louisiana bayou. At a backwater location he refuses to reveal... I knew it, it was a plant.
— The government's trying to suppress its findings.
— Bastard!
— Why would they do that?
— Because they're embarrassed. I'm mean, think about the money they spend each year, and this Dr. Fishburn got goes out in his backyard in his underwear one morning, and picks up the cure for AIDS!