"You hope, and you dream. But you never believe that something's gonna happen for you. Not like it does in the movies. And when it actually does, you want it to feel different, more visceral, more real. I was waiting for it to hit me, but it just wouldn't happen. The police were pissed cus' he was travelling under a false passport. But they didn't ask me about the map, so - i didn't tell them."

"When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn't need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that's just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it's just what you've been searching for all these years."

"I told myself spreading news was part of a traveller's nature, but if I was being completely honest, I was just like everybody else: shit-scared of the great unknown. Desperate to take a little piece of home with me."

"I just feel like everyone tries to do something different, but you always wind up doing the same damn thing."

"The only downer is, everyone's got the same idea. We all travel thousands of miles just to watch TV and check in to somewhere with all the comforts of home, and you gotta ask yourself, what is the point of that?"

"I had nothing left to offer but pure reflex. Pure reflex and mankind's basic drive for survival, that somehow shouts, "NO - I WILL NOT DIE TODAY!""

"Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It's probably worth it."

"And me, I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know it's not some place you can look for, 'cause it's not where you go. It's how you feel for a moment in your life when you're a part of something, and if you find that moment... it lasts forever..."

"My name is Richard. So what else do you need to know? Stuff about my family, or where I'm from? None of that matters. Not once you cross the ocean and cut yourself loose, looking for something more beautiful, something more exciting and yes, I admit, something more dangerous. So after eighteen hours in the back of an airplane, three dumb movies, two plastic meals, six beers and absolutely no sleep, I finally touch down; in Bangkok."

"No offence an' all, but, you're fucked in the head, right?"

"Richard, this is just the kind of pretentious bullshit that Americans always say to French girls so they can sleep with them."

"[To his wife] You wanna be worshipped? Go to India and moo."

"[To a reporter outside the Congressional hearing room] You know what the problem with you bums is? You never leave a guy alone unless you're leaving him alone."

"This week on Twenty One, watch Herb Stempel be fed to the Columbia lions. Watch Charles Van Doren eat his first kosher meal on Twenty One."

"Charles Van Doren — he wouldn't know the answer to a doorbell if you didn't give it to him."

"Compare with the real statement made by Charles Van Doren."

"Mira Sorvino - Sandra Goodwin"

"Johann Carlo - Toby Stempel"

"Martin Scorsese - Martin Rittenhome"

"Allan Rich - Robert Kintner"

"Hank Azaria - Albert Freedman"

"David Paymer - Dan Enright"

"Paul Scofield - Mark Van Doren"

"Rob Morrow - Dick Goodwin"

"John Turturro - Herbert Stempel"

"Ralph Fiennes - Charles Van Doren"

"Rep. Derounian: Mr Van Doren, I'm also from New York, a different part of New York. I'm happy that you made the statement, but I cannot agree with most of my colleagues. You see, I don't think an adult of your intelligence ought to be commended for simply, at long last, telling the truth."

"Martin Rittenhome: You see, the audience didn't tune in to watch some amazing display of intellectual ability. They just wanted to watch the money."

"Mark Van Doren: For $64,000, I hope they ask you the meaning of life."

"I remember five-six years ago my uncle Harold told my aunt about this affair he had. It was a sort of mildly upsetting event in my family... The affair was over, something like eight years. So I remember asking him, "Why did you tell her? You got away with it." And I'll never forget what he said. It was the getting away with it part that he couldn't live with."

"And they love me for the same reason they used to hate me, because I'm the guy who knows everything."

"[Referring to television] That box is the biggest thing since Gutenberg invented the printing press, and I'm the biggest thing on it."

"You know why they call them Indians? Because Columbus thought he was in India. They're Indians because some white guy got lost."

"You want to know what? If I do nothing else I will convince them that Herbert Stempel knows what won the goddamned Academy Award for best picture of 1955; that's what I'm gonna accomplish."

"[trying to reason with Dia, who has a gun aimed at him] You're Dia Vandy, of the proud Mende tribe. You are a good boy who loves soccer and school. Your mother loves you so much. She waits by the fire making plantains and red palm oil stew with your sister N'Yanda...and the new baby. [gradually gets closer] The cows wait for you. and Babu, the wild dog who minds no one but you. I know they made you do bad things, but you are not a bad boy. I am your father... who loves you. And you will come home with me and be my son again."

"[as he hunts a baboon, visibly angry at Solomon over almost getting them killed the night before] You know I once had this buddy named Maboko. We used to hunt bushmeat together as kids, huh. Baboons.Baboons, they were the hardest to catch. They're... They're cunning. Cunning creatures. Fast, strong. Got good eyesight. We'd always find them by the smell of their shit and that's how we learned to track your black terrorists in Angola: by the smell of your shit. It's not the same as a baboon's but after you skin it the flesh of a baboon isn't all that different than a man's you know. I tell you, I can track anything. [takes carcass and wipes blood off knife with leaf] Risk my life like that again and I'll peel you face back off your head. You understand?"

"Ellen Burstyn as Dr. Lillian Guzetti"

"Rachel Weisz as Isabel, Izzi Creo"

"Hugh Jackman as Tomas, Tommy, Tom Creo"

"Death is the road to awe."

"What if you could live forever?"

"Death frees every soul."

"There's no hope for us here. There is only death."

"Death as an act of creation."

"Grand Inquisitor Silecio: Our bodies are prisons for our souls. Our skin and blood, the iron bars of confinement. But, fear not. All flesh decays. Death turns all to ash. And thus, death frees every soul."

"Lord of Xibalba: Death is the road to awe."

"For every shadow, no matter how deep, is threatened by morning light."

"Together we will live forever."

"You do. You will."

"It's all done except the last chapter. I want you to help me. Finish it."