"This isn't a world that anyone with any sense stays in or spends much time worrying about. You're living in a carnival. Throwing little plastic rings at oversized pop bottles, hoping to win a prize. What are you gonna win? A two-week vacation? A new car? A little money to retire on? It's all just a shitty sawdust-filled rabbit. The things you care about are useless where we're going."

"Andrew Garfield as Sam"

"Wendy Vanden Heuvel (Hueval) as Topless Bird Woman"

"Riley Keough as Sarah"

"Riki Lindhome as Actress"

"You don't become a Bride without fucking Jesus."

"There's a message in the music.."

"Some people don't realise this about themselves, but, uh, you don't have a good smell about you."

"Don McManus as Final Man"

"[Standing over chess board] H6 to G4, [Circles the squares and glances bracelet] "NPM 1, 35 to 37". NPM. NPM. What the fuck does NPM mean? [Repeats "NPM" repeatedly then has an epiphant, rushes to stack of Nintendo Power magazines] NPM 1. Nintendo Power Magazine issue one. And 37. NPM 35 to 37. 35 to 37. Okay. Page 35, 36, 37. Oh my god. [Writes chess square position coordinates on pull-out map in magazine] H6, G4. H6, G4. H6. Calm down. Calm down. H6 to... one, two, three, four. G4. H6 to G4. [Circles in map] What the fuck do I do with that? [Sighs] H6 to G4. [Rushes over to Spacestones cereal box, opens it and tries to eat the cereal but spits it out and finds a map, unfurling it] Fuck, yes. [Lays cereal map over magazine map] Wow. My god. You were right. You were right. Okay. H6 to G4. So that's the reservoir, and that's Mount Hollywood. [Rushes to laptop to search for satellite views only to learn that it's censored] What the fuck is in there?!"

"[Sitting on floor] What's that? [Counts letters in lyrics of album reverse side] One, two, three. One, two, three, "u". Five. One, two, three, four, five. "B". Three. One, two, three. "D". One. One, two... seven. "U". "U". Nuh. "N". And, "w". "T". And... "N". "N". It's "Rub deans head now aitun er newton". "Rub deans head and wait under newton". "Rub deans head and wait under newton". "Rub deans head and wait under newton". [Gets up giggling excitedly and dances] Okay. "Rub Dean's head and wait under Newton". What the fuck does that mean? Dean Martin. Dean. Larry Dean Stanton. Dean Koontz. Richard Dean Anderson. Dean of admissions. Dean Stockwell. James Dean. [Goes to window] "Rub Dean's head". "Rub Dean's head". [Sighs, looks at bird woman then shifts gaze to Griffith Observatory] James Dean's head. Ha! Heh!"

"I know it's not okay for me to say this but I- I fucking hate the homeless. Everybody says we need to take of them, but I think they're fucking bullies. Poltergeists.... All they do is float around the edges, on the peripheries and watch people eating delicious food, drinking beer and falling in love. They can't participate so they get jealous, and then they harrass us."

"Patty McCormack as Sylvia Ross"

"Jesse Vint as Tom Tacker"

"Brendan Dillon as Charlie"

"Alan Fudge as Professor Mark Ross"

"Bradford Dillman as Professor James Parmiter"

"Joanna Miles as Carrie Parmiter"

"Richard Gilliland as Gerald Metbaum"

"I've gone too far. The case is... They must be destroyed. It's cracked. I gotta have it fixed. I'm gonna fix it. I gotta get it all fixed."

"Today, I noticed that the females are at last carrying egg cases. They continue to listen to me, even to my voice on the tapes when I play them back. Now I know it's an irrational thought, but they even seem to watch me. And certainly lately, they've taken to forming different sorts of patterns."

"Frederic Downs as Henry Tacker"

"Jamie Smith-Jackson as Norma Tacker"

"She wouldn't let me anywhere near it. That fire bug is protecting the egg case even though she's under terrific atmospheric pressure. It's incredible. You can almost feel her pain. Never mind. The egg should incubate at sea level pressure."

"September 18th, 10:20 A.M. The egg case has tripled in size in just 24 hours. I wonder... I wonder what kind of creatures this new generation will be. I've already decided to name them Parmiterra Hephaestus. Hephaestus for the Greek god of fire, Parmiterra for me."

"They've become adults in five hours, and they're a combination of both parents and are like either one. Elongated, brownish in color, with two tightened clone-like projections on their head. And spotted segments on the back."

"September 16th, 4 A.M. The male is dead from the pressure, but the mating was successful. I'm about to depressurize to transfer the egg case. The fire bug... I'll keep it alive just as long as necessary."

"You'll live. I'll make you live."

"September the 12th at 2 A.M. I've just placed a large male hustle roach into the tank to determine if copulation with the fire bug is possible. And I've simulated the atmosphere in which both insects should be able to function."

"The Parmiters will eat only raw meat, any kind. I'm not gonna have enough here to satisfy their appetites. I'm gonna have to get some more, but the astonishing fact is that they will only eat as a combined single unit."

"Jim Poyner as Kenny Tacker"

"James Greene as Reverend Kern"

"The Parmiters are sensing the more powerful. They seem to know they'll live only as long as I allow them to."

"Hal Holbrook - Isaac Green"

"Jennifer Connelly - Sarah Williams"

"Janet McTeer - Caroline Pierce"

"Billy Crudup - Fielding Pierce"

"Paul Hipp - Danny Pierce"

"Molly Parker - Juliet Beck"

"Sandra Oh - Kim"

"John Carroll Lynch - Father Mileski"

"Fielding's father: [giving Fielding some advice after a speech] And you get too personal. I mean, if anybody really knew Kennedy, you think they would've voted for him? You gotta be strong. So strong you're gonna want to blow your brains out. But you won't. So strong, people can say right to your face, "you're a dirty, lying son of a bitch", and it's not gonna make a bit of difference."

"I thought wanting you was going to go away. They told me it was going to go away."