"[On the phone getting chewed out by government officials for the death of Subzero] Yes, I know a Stalker died. It was bound to happen sooner or later. Well, it IS a contact sport. Now look, you people at the Justice Department cannot have it both ways! You hired me to entertain. If you want to keep the people away from tax revolts, food riots, and bread lines and parked in front of their TVs? Well, you ain't gonna get that with reruns of Gilligan's Island!...Gilligan's Island?...You know!...[Hums a few bars from "The Ballad of Gilligan's Island"]...Yes, the one with the boat!"

"Won't do you any good to play games with me, Mr. Rainey. This has got to be settled."

"Charles S. Dutton - Private Investigator Ken Karsch"

"Len Cariou - Sheriff Dave Newsome"

"Timothy Hutton - Ted "Teddy" Milner"

"Maria Bello - Amy Rainey"

"John Turturro - John Shooter"

"Johnny Depp - Morton "Mort" Rainey"

"The most important part of a story is the ending."

"What do you think it means, you ignorant hick? I'm in the middle of a divorce. D-I-V-O-R-C-E. Deee-vorce!"

"Some windows should never be opened."

"[Reading Shooter's note] "You have three days. I'm not joking. No police." Anytime somebody sits down and writes "No police"... That's exactly the time that a fella should get himself over to the police."

"What happened? You finally nail one of your groupies at a book signing? The Omaha Barnes and Noble? [Irritated, Mort reaches forward and shuts off Ken's session timer; Ken pauses] That was a dick thing to say, you know? Rotten profession. I apologize."

"How'd you get it? That's what I really wanna know. How the hell did a big, money-scribblin' asshole like you get down to a little shitsplat town in Mississippi and steal my goddamn story?"

"You strike me as the type of guy who's lookin' for a head he can knock off with a shovel. But what you don't understand is that if we do start to fight... this ain't gonna end, until the other one of us is dead."

"I suppose so. I suppose that's why I came all the way up here from Mississ'ippi."

"I know I can do it", Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time, every bit of her will be gone, and her death will be a mystery... even to me."

"What we saw was impossible. You know that, don't you? What do we say? How do we convince them [to stay inside]? Ollie, what the hell were those tentacles even attached to?"

"Nathan Gamble as Billy Drayton"

"Frances Sternhagen as Irene Reppler"

"William Sadler as Jim Grondin"

"Toby Jones as Ollie Weeks"

"Sam Witwer as Private Wayne Jessup"

"Andre Braugher as Brent Norton"

"Jeffrey DeMunn as Dan Miller"

"Laurie Holden as Amanda Dumfries"

"Marcia Gay Harden as Mrs. Carmody"

"Thomas Jane as David Drayton"

"It appears we may have a problem of some magnitude."

"You'd think educating children would be more of a priority in this country but you'd be wrong. Governments got better things to spend our money on, like corporate hand outs and building bombs."

"Welcome to Sesame Street, kids. Today's word is 'expiation'."

"As a species, we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?"

"You can't convince some people there's a fire even when their hair is burning. Denial is a powerful thing."

"Something in the mist took John Lee and I heard him screaming!"

"Don't go out there! There's something in the mist!"

"No, don't go out there. It's death out there. It's the end of days."

"The day I need a friend like you, I'll just have myself a little squat and shit one out."

"We have Judas in our midst!"

"There's no defense against the will of God. There's no court of appeals in hell. The end times have come; not in flames, but in mist..."

"Want another reason to get the hell out of here? I'll give you the best one: her. Mrs. Carmody. Our very own Jim Jones. I'd like to leave before people start drinking the Kool-Aid."

"You don't understand, or you're trying really hard not to... are you guys being willfully dense?"

"Radio: We've only just begun. [Song by The Carpenters played on the clock radio, whenever it comes on.]"

"Mary McCormack - Lily Enslin"

"Samuel L. Jackson - Mr. Olin"

"John Cusack - Mike Enslin"

"Enter Room 1408.......If you dare."

"Based on the terrifying novel by Stephen King."

"Don't enter Room 1408!"