Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.

You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park ride; it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots.

I'm disappointed in you, Adrian. I'm very disappointed. Reassembling myself was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman. Did you really think it would kill me? I have walked across the surface of the sun. I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast, they could hardly be said to have occurred at all. But you, Adrian, you're just a man. The world's smartest man poses no more threat to me than does its smartest termite.

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.