Billy Bibbit

"You're killing me."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is a form of rebellion."

"I can't change what I am, but I can change how I act."

"I used to be somebody before I came to this place."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"I've always been a little mad, I think."

"Everybody's got to be somebody."

"I can't be a man if I can't stand up for myself."

"A man needs to feel like a man, not like a patient."

"I want to be let out of here."

"I just want to do my best."

"I don't belong in here."

"All I know is this: nobody's gonna come in here and convince me I'm something I'm not."

"I won't be a fool anymore."

"He gave us hope."

"I was lost until I met McMurphy."

"I learned you can't fight the system with anger alone."

"Love doesn't exist in places like this—only its memory."

"Some men are broken by what happens to them; others break themselves."

"The mind is a strange country; some of us never leave it."

"Work keeps you from thinking about what you've lost."

"Adventure is remembering who you were before this place."

"Somebody's got to stand up to that woman."

"That takes guts to do that."

"The heart wants what it wants."

"I just want to be let alone."

"You're not crazy if you can admit you're crazy."

"I'd rather be a fool who's happy than a genius in pain."

"You can't fix what you don't admit is broken."

"McMurphy's got more guts than the rest of us put together."