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Q. What does Travis say when he's drawing his gun and looking at himself in the mirror?
"Who do you think you are?"
"What's the deal, punk?"
"You talkin' to me?"
"I will no longer eat crackers in bed! I will no longer eat crackers in bed!"
Q. What line from a song does Betsy say describes Travis?
"He's a walker in the rain, he's a dancer in the dark."
"The fool on the hill / Sees the sun going down / And the eyes in his head / See the world spinning round"
"Watch me whip, watch me nae nae"
"…he's a prophet and a pusher, partly truth, partly fiction. A walking contradiction."
Q. What does Travis say about the first moment he saw Betsy?
"She appeared like an angel. Out of this filthy mess, she is alone. They... cannot... touch... her."
"At first, I didn't see what was so special. But her image grew and grew in my mind."
"She descended to me like a goddess, beckoning, with salvation in her hand."
"Betsy… Betsy… That name always makes me hungry for apple pie, for some reason."
Q. What does Travis say about his own isolation?
"It's terrible at first. But the more time goes by, the more I've come to cherish my loneliness as my greatest ally."
"Isolation shm-isolation. Who needs it?"
"There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man."
"Isolation is terrible. But solitude is a good thing."
Q. What does Travis say about his increasingly violent train of thought?
"Madness is often part of genius, and a great man like Napoleon frequently needs to commit bloodshed."
"I kept shooting fake ducks at the arcade and thinking… man, I wish I could both fly and swim just like a duck!!!"
"I knew I was going mad. But I was powerless to stop the tide of insanity washing over me."
"The idea had been growing in my brain for some time. True force. All the king's men cannot put it back together again."