"The Ancient Japanese considered the Go board to be a microcosm of the universe. Although when it is empty it appears to be simple and ordered, in fact, the possibilities of gameplay are endless. They say that no two Go games have ever been alike. Just like snowflakes. So, the Go board actually represents an extremely complex and chaotic universe."

"Hold on. You have to slow down. You're losing it. You have to take a breath. Listen to yourself. You're connecting a computer bug I had with a computer bug you might have had and some religious hogwash. You want to find the number 216 in the world, you will be able to find it everywhere. 216 steps from a mere street corner to your front door. 216 seconds you spend riding on the elevator. When your mind becomes obsessed with anything, you will filter everything else out and find that thing everywhere."

"Number? How many digits was it? 100? 1,000? 216?"

"Have you met Archimedes? The one with the black spots, you see? You remember Archimedes of Syracuse, eh? The king asks Archimedes to determine if a present he's received is actually solid gold. Unsolved problem at the time. It tortures the great Greek mathematician for weeks — insomnia haunts him and he twists and turns in his bed for nights on end. Finally, his equally exhausted wife — she's forced to share a bed with this genius — convinces him to take a bath to relax. While he's entering the tub, Archimedes notices the bath water rise. Displacement, a way to determine volume, and that's a way to determine density — weight over volume. And thus, Archimedes solves the problem. He screams "Eureka" and he is so overwhelmed he runs dripping naked through the streets to the king's palace to report his discovery."

"There will be no order, only chaos."

"It's just a number. I'm sure you've written down every 216 digit number. You've translated all of them. You've intoned them all. Haven't you? What's it gotten you? The number is nothing! It's the meaning. It's the syntax. It's what's between the numbers. You haven't understood it. It's because it's not for you!"

"If the number's there I'll find it!"

"My new hypothesis: If we're built from Spirals while living in a giant Spiral, then is it possible that everything we put our hands to is infused with the Spiral?"

"10:15, personal note: It's fair to say I'm stepping out on a limb, but I am on the edge and that's where it happens."

"Failed treatments to date: Beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, adrenalin injections, high dose ibuprofen, steroids, Trager Mentastics, violent exercise, cafergot suppositories, caffeine, acupuncture, marijuana, Percodan, Midrine, Tenormin, Sansert, homeopathics. No results. No results..."

"12:50, press return..."

"I'm trying to understand our world. I don't deal with petty materialists like you."

"9:13, Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal. I was terrified, alone in that darkness. Slowly daylight crept in through the bandages, and I could see, but something else had changed inside of me. That day I had my first headache."

"12:45, Restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature. Evidence: The cycling of disease epidemics; the wax and wane of caribou populations; sun spot cycles; the rise and fall of the Nile. So, what about the stock market? The universe of numbers that represents the global economy. Millions of human hands at work, billions of minds. A vast network, screaming with life. An organism. A natural organism. My hypothesis: Within the stock market, there is a pattern as well. Right in front of me. Hiding behind the numbers. Always has been."

"You see the simplicity of the circle. You see the maddening complexity of the endless string of numbers, 3.14 off into infinity."

"Something's going on. It has to do with that number. There's an answer in that number."

"Eric Stoltz - Stoner Bud"

"Anthony Edwards - Stoner Bud"

"Jack Fisk - The Man in the Planet"

"Laurel Near - Lady in the Radiator"

"A dream of dark and troubling things"

"Where your nightmares end..."

"Warning: the nightmare has not gone away"

"In Heaven Everything Is Fine."

"Be warned. The nightmare has not gone away..."

"Pencil Factory Manager: [exasperated from his assistant's constant buzzing] OKAY, PAUL!"

"Beautiful Girl Across the Hall: I locked myself out of my apartment... [pause] and it's so late."

"Lady in the Radiator: [singing] In Heaven, everything is fine. In Heaven, everything is fine. In Heaven, everything is fine. You've got your good things, and I've got mine. In Heaven, everything is fine. In Heaven, everything is fine. In Heaven, everything is fine. You've got your good things, and you've got mine. In Heaven, everything...is fine. ~ In Heaven"

"The girls have heard this before but... 14 years ago I had an operation on my left arm here. The doctors said that I wouldn't be able to ever use it. But what the hell do they know, I said. So I rubbed it for a half hour every day. And slowly I could move it a little, and use it to turn a faucet... and pretty soon I had my arm back again. And now, I can't feel a damn thing in it. All numb! I'm afraid to cut it, you know?"

"Judith Anna Roberts - Beautiful Girl Across the Hall"

"Jeanne Bates - Mrs. X"

"Allen Joseph - Mr. X"

"[the Baby is going into violent convulsions and has broken out in spots] Oh, you are sick!"

"Charlotte Stewart - Mary X"

"Jack Nance - Henry Spencer"

"Mr. Karlman: We could have brought anyone into this show: Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul. Nomi Malone is what Las Vegas is all about! She's dazzling, she's exciting, and very, very sexy!"

"Carrie Ann Inaba - Goddess dancer"

"Bobbie Phillips - Dee"

"Melinda Songer - Nicky"

"Ungela Brockman - Angie"

"Melissa Williams - Julie"

"Rena Riffel - Penny / Hope"

"Dewey Weber - Jeff"

"Michelle Johnston - Gay Carpenter"

"William Shockley - Andrew Carver"

"Patrick Bristow - Marty Jacobsen"

"Al Ruscio - Mr. Karlman"

"Greg Travis - Phil Newkirk"

"Lin Tucci - Henrietta "Mama" Bazoom"

"Gina Ravera - Molly Abrams"