Heart Beat (1980)

Ray Sharkey: Ira

Quotes 

• Ira : Excuse me, Mr. Ogden. I'm Ira Steinberg. This is Jack Kerouac. You remember, of course, I submitted Mr. Kerouac's book here, to you.

  Ogden : That isn't a book. It's a spare tire.

  Ira : Never mind the paper, Ogden. Did you read the writing?

  Ogden : It isn't writing. It's typing.

• Ira : I thought you needed order to write?

  Jack Kerouac : All I need to write is a pencil.

• Ira : That's right, Jack. Come on, get angry. Come on, get angry and stay angry until you get what you want.

• Ira : Like dripping out of the Sun, Momus, Momus, Son of night, Momus, Invisible Coalitions, Deranged Industrialists, Ghostly Nations, Insolent Asylums, Momus, Momus, Cocksucker in Momus, Malignant bombs, Malignant bombs, Glass jism!

  Neal Cassady : Very good, Ira.

  Ira : I'm not finished. What did you think?

  Carolyn Cassady : Well, I guess I'm kind of old fashion; but, I sort of go for "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".

  Ira : Eliot!

  Carolyn Cassady : Yeah.

  Ira : Oh! You mean the bank clerk! The world's big authority on the end of civilization. You wanna know about civilization? You ask any bum on the bowery after he's had 12 shots of Sterno. The puke encrusted scabs on his face are a more eloquent poem than Eliot ever wrote. Eliot?

  Carolyn Cassady : So, eh, how long are you here for, Ira?

• Ira : They got free tea growing in god damn fields down there.

  Neal Cassady : Well, then, we'll just get high drivin' around with the windows open.

• Carolyn Cassady : Must you be so loud?

  Ira : I'm sorry if I'm a threat to you.

  Carolyn Cassady : You're not a threat to me.

  Ira : I'm a threat to everybody. I know that. Maybe I could learn some table manners. I don't know. Being polite seems like such a arrogant gesture to me. I see a lot of stupid pain in this world and it makes me angry. So, I shout. What else am I going to do with my yap? Run for office?

• Ira : What the fuck do you know about writing, you redhead android!