Travis Bickle

"I'm very quiet now. I don't have much to say."

"I know about pain. I know about suffering."

"Every night when I go to bed, I think about what I'm gonna do."

"I got to be like a rat. I got to be vicious and quick."

"The important thing is the movement, the action, not the destination."

"I want to do something real. Something that matters."

"Time is running out. I can feel it."

"I don't want to hurt anybody. But I will if I have to."

"You got to be strong to survive in this world."

"I'm taking a job as a cabbie because I got nothing else to do."

"She's the best thing that's happened to me."

"I'm gonna make something of myself. I'm gonna be somebody."

"All night there's a line of people waiting to get in. What are they looking for?"

"I don't trust nobody. Not anymore."

"I'm walking the streets at night, and I see things. Terrible things."

"I want her to know what it's like to be loved by someone real."

"I got to learn to be patient. To wait for the right moment."

"This job, this cab, it's a classroom for understanding the city."

"I'm looking for a reason to live. A real reason."

"The rain is gonna clean it all up. All this filth."

"I'm at war with myself every single day."

"A man's got to have some kind of code to live by."

"I've been wandering the streets like a ghost."

"I'm gonna get myself together. I'm gonna become a new person."

"I feel like God is watching me. Judging me."

"I don't know what to believe anymore. Nothing seems real."

"Youth and beauty, they don't mean anything in this world."

"I'm trying to make a difference. Even if it's just a small one."

"I've got to maintain some kind of hope. Otherwise, what's the point?"

"I'm better than all these bums and hustlers out there."