"You see yourself from above. You’re passed out on the blue tiles of the hostel room floor. Even from this distance you can see your eyelids flutter -- at the mention of what? A great white object, letting out its sweet smell, like a Lily of the Valley. The little man’s forgotten its name, but he still remembers the feeling. And look, he moves! The feeling animates him. He instinctively reaches out for the feeling's best friend -- a bottle of Commodore Red. He puts on his disco clothes and gets smaller and smaller... and the little guy gets smaller and smaller as you rise above the doll house world. You see him out in the snow, on the streets, in the shop on the corner, and, finally, in a matchbox house. Sitting by the window, white flowers on the windowsill. You can smell them from up here: it's awful. A white mourning. A modern death. Divorce, or something similar. All you can do is put more distance between you and him, make him smaller. Make him less you."

"[About the player] It was him. He is the infernal engine. He never stops. He only gets worse."

"You really dropped the ball, Harry. Four point six billion people -- and you failed every single one of them. You really fucked up."

"Detective, each of us has our part to play in the world. My part is to solve crimes. I am under no illusion that my role isn't a minor one, in the scheme of things... but I embrace it because it's my role, and it's yours too, detective, whether you accept it or not!"

"Perhaps you can climb them. We're not climbing anything. I'm 43 years old -- and I plan to live to see 70."

"Every school of thought and government has failed in this city -- but I love it nonetheless. It belongs to me as much as it belongs to you."

"I love Revachol, though. I hope she loves me too."

"The word PISSF****T [sic] epitomizes the struggle taking place in the world, things being defined as they seem, not as they are. And -- I guess -- it's also about communal spirit, the future, and truly appreciating our differences. Also, you've got to admit, it catches the eye. And since the grand piper is slowly but steadily moving towards basing the economy on it -- attention -- it is imperative that the medium itself convey the message."

"The star-and-antlers was developed in the sixth decade of the last century and quickly adopted by Mazov and the communards during the Revolution […] The wreath of antlers represents a natural crown. It was about building a society that could exist in accord with the natural world -- and at the same time above it. [Why is the star upside down?] To symbolize the toppling of the old order. [Why white?] Because white is the colour of peace."

"Halt! Put down the pipe, scumbag! The Narc is on the scene and he's gonna tell it to you straight. Drugs are for losers. They fry your brain and rewire your circuits to self-destruct. And they make you masturbate too. Have a drink instead. Have two. Have three bottles of wine, it's impossible to masturbate after three bottles of wine. And remember, friends don't let friends get high...or be sober. Peace out, little brother."

"Revachol is the disgraced former capital of the world, divided into zones of control under foreign occupation -- half a century after a failed world revolution. She is central to our moment in time."

"Yeah, it's another copotype -- the worst one. The most savage and brutal. The Art Cop. Nothing is good enough for him. Everything is shit. You have to employ an armada of adjectives to depict and demean the mediocrity of the works and visual institutions around you. Really flex that critical muscle. Until the vocabulary for PUNISHING mediocrity becomes second nature."

"0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself sad. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov fucked him over personally with his socio-economic theory. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world."

"The butts you saw had a silhouette of a boy wearing a kofia hat -- a tobacco picker. This boy is the Tioumoutiri brand logo. Contemporary Revacholians prefer Drouin (a local blend from the southern islands) or Astra, a legendary cigarette from Graad. Tioumoutiri is favoured by older men who like its old fashioned paper filter tips, insane amount of tar and the sweet smells of colonialism and halva."

"First, if you have a side-bitch ideology cooking somewhere, don't sweat it. Fightin' indirect taxation for the Gossamer State is compatible with all creeds. It's cool like that. You're a cool anarchist now. Unless you don't want to be an anarchist. Whatever! Stuff this meal ticket in your eye-socket and let's see if we can steal some love back from the robber barons at the customs agency and the banditos at The Insulindian Financial Oversight and Competition Committee."

"Nudity is shameful. No officer of the law should ever be caught sans pantalones."

"The nations who colonized this isola called theirs Mundi. The World. It was all they knew, all they thought would be. That there would be something more was a gamble. Akin to another world -- or life after death."

"His eyes are milky white and blind to the world, protruding comically from their sockets. There is no one home, just sub-aquatic terrors there."

"[On Communism] You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few million eggs."

"Roger Yuan - Huang, a Triad gang assassin (uncredited)"

"Jason Mantzoukas - "Tick Tock Man""

"Tiger Chen - Triad (uncredited)"

"Robin Lord Taylor - "Administrator""

"Margaret Daly - Operator"

"Susan Blommaert - "Librarian""

"Boban Marjanović - Ernest"

"Lance Reddick - Charon"

"Anjelica Huston - "The Director""

"Mark Dacascos - Zero"

"Asia Kate Dillon - "The Adjudicator""

"Saïd Taghmaoui - "The Elder""

"Jerome Flynn - Berrada"

"Randall Duk Kim - The Doctor"

"Tobias Segal - Earl"

"Ian McShane - Winston"

"Every Action Has Consequences."

"Don't Hunt What You Can't Kill."

"Tick Tock, Mr. Wick"

"If you want peace, prepare for war."

"Keanu Reeves - John Wick / Jardani Jovonovich"

"Everyone Is Waiting For John Wick"

"Laurence Fishburne - "The Bowery King""

"Halle Berry - Sofia Al-Azwar"

"I can assure you that the stories you hear about John Wick, if nothing else, have been watered down."

"Can a man like you know peace?"

"The only way out is back in."

"Never stab the devil in the back."

"Keanu Reeves - John Wick"

"Tobias Segal - Earl"

"Thomas Sadoski - Jimmy"