velvet goldmine
Malcolm: I don't believe that there is much of a future to speak of.

Pearl: We're in a bit of a decadent spiral, aren't we?

Billy: Sinking fast.

Ray: Big Brother, baby, all the way.

Malcolm: Which is why we prefer impressions to ideas.

Billy: Situations to subjects.

Pearl: Brief flights to sustained ones.

Ray: Exceptions to types.

Pearl: And yourself?