"[Nonaka and Alexa talk of converting an intelligent machine to help them] Alexa: Will it...? Do you think it will convert? Nonaka: To convert is its choice to make. Alexa: Do you think we ought to reprogram it? Nonaka: No. We can't make slaves of them. Alexa: Because that would be simpler. Nonaka: We won't beat the machines by making them our slaves. Better to let them join us by choice. Alexa: Make them believe the right choice is the one we want. Nonaka: All right. Yes, machines are tools. They're made to be used. It's their nature. Alexa: To be slaves. Nonaka: That's why we show them a better world, why they convert. Alexa: But that world we show them isn't real. Nonaka: It doesn't matter. Alexa: I'm afraid they'll figure out that we've made up the thing in our heads. Nonaka: They can't tell the difference. To an artificial mind, all reality is virtual. How do they know that the real world isn't just another simulation? How do you? Alexa: I know I' m not dreaming now because I know what its like being in a dream. Nonaka: So dreaming lets you know that reality exists? Alexa: No. Just that my mind exists. I don't know about the rest. [Allusion to Cogito, ergo sum.]"

"For me... that is a really difficult question Dr. Laurenson, because the world around me is shrinking... and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are comin' to see me today, and they're not bringing flowers which... just makes it real difficult to get organized."

"Kris Kristofferson - Dr. Thomas Becker"

"Jennifer Jason Leigh - Dr. Lorenson"

"Kelly Lynch - Jean Price"

"Keira Knightley - Jackie Price"

"Adrien Brody - Jack Starks"

"Terror has a new name."

"Sometimes I think we live through things only to be able to say that it happened. That it wasn't to someone else, it was to me. Sometimes we live to beat the odds. I'm not crazy even though they thought I was. I live in the same world as everyone else. I just saw more of it, as I'm sure you have. They'll find my body tomorrow. You can check it out if you don't believe me. I've seen life after my death, and I'm telling you this because it's the only way to help you and your daughter have a better life of your own. Jean, you're gonna pass out one day smoking a cigarette and burn to death. Your daughter grows up living the same sad life you're living right now. And she misses you so much. Sometimes life can only really begin with the knowledge of death. That it can all end, even when you least want it to. The important thing in life is to believe that while you're alive, it's never too late. I promise you, Jean, no matter how bad things look, they look better awake than they do asleep. When you die, there's only one thing you want to happen. You wanna come back."

"I was 27 years old the first time I died. I remember there was white everywhere. There was war and I felt alive, but really I was dead."

"The real events that have happened to me have been fucked up, not my mind!"

"Peter Lorre — Hans Beckert"

"Berlin boasted the biggest film industry in Europe, producing in Fritz Lang's Metropolis the science-fiction masterpiece of the twenties and in the same director's M the definitive film noir."

"Tillie: BLEH!!"

"Beggar: Stop snoring! You'll wake the lice."

"Children: [singing] Just you wait a little while, the nasty man in black will come. With his little chopper, he will chop you up!"

"Tillie: Don't do that!"

"Pickpocket with Seven Watches: There are more police on the street tonight than whores."

"Girl in Circle: Just you wait, it won't be long, The man in black will soon be here, With his cleaver's blade so true, He'll make mincemeat out of you!"

"[to Hans Beckert] You talk of rights… You will get your rights. We are all law experts here, from six weeks in Tegel, to fifteen years in Brandenburg."

"We're doing our job because we have a living to make. But this monster has no right to live. He must disappear. He must be exterminated, without pity… without scruples."

"Fritz Odemar - Conman"

"Rudolf Blümner - Elderly Lawyer"

"Paul Kemp - Pickpocket with Seven Watches"

"Ellen Widmann - Frau Beckmann"

"Gustaf Gründgens — Schränker"

"Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention."

"[from his journal] On the subway today, a man came up to me to start a conversation. He made small talk, a lonely man talking about the weather and other things. I tried to be pleasant and accommodating, but my head hurt from his banality. I almost didn't notice it had happened, but I suddenly threw up all over him. He was not pleased, and I couldn't stop laughing."

"[From one of his journals] What sick ridiculous puppets we are / and what gross little stage we dance on / What fun we have dancing and fucking / Not a care in the world / Not knowing that we are nothing / We are not what was intended"

"Fuckin' Dante. Goddamn poetry-writing faggot, piece of shit, fucker! [A cop knocks on the car window and delivers an envelope of CliffsNotes] Good work, officer! Thank you, Lord."