"A boy, in the midwest of this land, will grow up in a home where your book will be on the shelf and spoken of often. He will grow up with these ideas in his head. He will grow into a great orator. He will speak and his words will be heard throughout this land and throughout the world. This boy will become leader of this country and begin a movement of great change. He will speak of you and your words and your book will be the seeds of many of his great thoughts. They will be the seeds of change."

"Once, man and those in the water were linked. They inspired us. They spoke of the future. Man listened and it became real. But man does not listen very well. Man's need to own everything led him deeper into land. The magic world of the ones that lived in the ocean and the world of men separated. Through the centuries, their world and all the inhabitants of it stopped trying. The world of man became more violent. War upon war played out, as there were no guides to listen to. Now those in the water are trying again — trying to reach us. A handful of their precious young ones have been sent into the world of man. They are brought in the dead of night — to where man lives. They need only be glimpsed — and the awakening of man will happen. But their enemies roam the land. There are laws that are meant to keep the young ones safe — but they are sent at great risk to their lives. Many do not return. Yet still they try — try to help man. But man may have forgotten how to listen."

"I am scared. I will wait here with you, Cleveland."

"I'm so very happy we saw each other."

"Your words are very beautiful. Your heart is very big."

"Thank you for letting me wear your beautiful shirt."

"Do you wish to know your future?"

"Brenda Strong – Claudia, Riley's secretary"

"Tobin Bell – Earl Leemus"

"Debrah Farentino – Nurse Tanya"

"Gwyneth Paltrow – Paula Bell"

"Anne Bancroft – Mrs. Kennsinger"

"Peter Gallagher – Dennis Riley"

"Bebe Neuwirth – Dana Harris"

"Josef Sommer – Lester Adams"

"Nicole Kidman – Tracy Safian"

"George C. Scott – Dr. Martin Kessler"

"Bill Pullman – Andy Safian"

"You want something done right, dammit, you call a teacher."

"What the fuck do you think I want, Trace? I want half."

"Ask God how many shots of bourbon he had before he cut me open."

"Her doctor wasn't playing God. He thought he was God."

"I'm the new guy around here and I want to make friends, so I'll say this to you and we'll start fresh. If you don't like my jokes, don't laugh. If you have a medical opinion, then please speak up and speak up loud. But if you ever again tell me or my surgical staff that we're going to lose a patient, I'm gonna take out your lungs with a fuckin' ice cream scoop. Do you understand me?"

"The question is, 'Do I have a 'God Complex'?...which makes me wonder if this lawyer has any idea as to the kind of grades one has to receive in college to be accepted at a top medical school. Or if you have the vaguest clue as to how talented someone has to be to lead a surgical team. I have an M.D. from Harvard, I am board certified in cardio-thoracic medicine and trauma surgery, I have been awarded citations from seven different medical boards in New England, and I am never, ever sick at sea. So I ask you; when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn't miscarry or that their daughter doesn't bleed to death or that their mother doesn't suffer acute neural trauma from postoperative shock, who do you think they're praying to? Now, go ahead and read your Bible, Dennis, and you go to your church, and, with any luck, you might win the annual raffle. But if you're looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17, and he doesn't like to be second guessed. You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something: I am God."

"Deception. Betrayal. Murder. Some things you never see coming."

"Bad things happen to good people all the time, Andy, for no reason whatsoever."

"Alec Baldwin – Dr. Jed Hill"

"Brian Cox — Hannibal Lecktor"

"Enter the mind of a serial killer… you may never come back"

"Will Graham has the mind of a psychopath. Thank God he's on the right side of the law"

"It's just you and me now, sport…"

"William Petersen — Will Graham"

"Have you ever seen blood in the moonlight, Will? It appears quite black."

"Tom Noonan — Francis Dollarhyde (aka The Tooth Fairy)"

"If one does what God does enough times, one will become as God is."

"It's just you and me now, sport. And I'm going to find you, goddamn it."

"You rearrange the dead families into an audience to see what you do. You think that what you do will make you into something different. You are becoming. What is it you think you're becoming? The answer is in the way you use the mirrors. What do the mirrors make you dream you're becoming?"

"Before me, you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great becoming, but you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the afterbirth. It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: Tremble. But fear is not what you owe me. No, Lounds... you and the others — you owe me awe!"

"Take my word for it. I'm smiling."

"That's the same atrocious aftershave you wore in court three years ago."