Angel (Ian Charleson): "I was 15 before I realized I was dead."

Amyl Nitrite (Jordan): "History still fascinates me...It's so intangible. You can weave facts anywhere you like. Good guys can swap places with bad guys. You might think Richard III of England was bad but you'd be wrong. What separates Hitler from Napoleon or even Alexander? The size of the destruction or is he nearer to us in time? Was Churchill a hero? Did he alter history for the better?"

Crabs (Nell Campbell): "Leave the guy alone, he's better than a vibrator and he's bigger."

Mad (Toyah Willcox): "You're a sucker for sex, Crabs. Why don't you keep up with the times. You're an antique like this place."

Crabs: "I just love a man without its uniform."

Amyl Nitrite: "When I'm not making history, I write it."

Angel: "You clammy slag! You sat on the KY with your fat arse!"

Borgia Ginz (Jack Birkett): "Without progress life would be unbearable. Progress has taken the place of Heaven....It's like pornography; better than the real thing."

Mad: "America's dead. It's never been alive!"

Amyl Nitrite: "Our school motto is Faites vos desirs realitie. Make your desires reality. I, myself, prefer the song "Don't Dream It, Be It".

Mad: "No one's gonna help you so help yourselves."

Amyl Nitrite: "In those days, desires weren't allowed to become reality. So fantasy was substituted for them - films, books, pictures. They called it 'art'. But when your desires become reality, you don't need fantasy any longer, or art."

Mad: "If your house is ugly, burn it. If the street you live in depresses you, then bulldoze it down. And if the cook can't cook then you kill her, all right?"

Viv (Linda Spurrier): "Our only hope is to recreate ourselves as artists or anarchists if you like and release the energy for all."

Bod (Jenny Runacre): "I never liked pearls...or oysters."

Borgia Ginz: "This is the generation who grew up and forgot to lead their lives."

Mad: "Sex is for geriatrics. The mindless!

Bod: "The only thing open all eleven in this f*cking county are the police cells."

Borgia Ginz: "As long as the music's loud enough, we won't hear the world falling apart."

Bod: "Christ! Blue movies for breakfast is more than I can stomach."

Max (Neil Kennedy): "My idea of a perfect garden is a memorative poppy field."

Compiled by Jeff Stafford