"Your brain is meat, and rots and disappears. Do you really think that's all there was to you? Like you're in your house right now. You're in your house, that doesn't mean you are your house. House falls down, you get out and walk away."

"Thought is real. Physical is the illusion. Ironic, huh?"

"Chris, "here" is big enough for everyone to have their own private universe."

"Dear Diary, I am writing in your bullshit pages because my shrink is crazier than I am. He thinks you're therapy. He figures if two babies can hammer me into a Psycho ward, what will I do with this? He is so stupid. He's so stupid that he thinks he pulled me through the breakdown when it was Christy. Always. Only Chris. I was looking through his postcards. Paintings were his obsession. He used art as another way to love me, to help me. To keep us always together."

"A whole family lost to car crashes. Enough to make a person buy a bike."

"Well, that's my role. To bring adventure to your life."

"I'm sorry, babe, but there's some things I have to say. I've only got a few moments left. I'm sorry for all the things I'll never give you. I'll never buy you another meatball sub with extra sauce — that was a big one! I'll never make you smile. I just wanted us to be old together, just two old farts laughin' at each other as our bodies fell apart, together at the end by that lake in your painting. That was our Heaven, see? There's lots of things to miss: books, naps, kisses, and fights! God, we had some great ones. Thank you for those. Thank you for every kindness. Thank you for our children. For the first time I saw them. Thank you for being someone I was always proud to be with. For your guts. For your sweetness. For how you always looked, for how I always wanted to touch you. You were my life. I apologize for every time I failed you. Especially this one."

"He was a coward! Being strong, not giving up, it was just his place to hide. He pushed away the pain so hard, disconnected himself from the person he loved the most... Sometimes, when you win, you lose."

"Sometimes, when you win, you lose."

"I found you in Hell, don't you think I can find you in Jersey!?"

"Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves. I know I can't. But I can forgive you."

"What's true in our minds is true, whether some people know it or not."

"Johann Carlo - Toby Stempel"

"Martin Scorsese - Martin Rittenhome"

"Allan Rich - Robert Kintner"

"Hank Azaria - Albert Freedman"

"David Paymer - Dan Enright"

"Paul Scofield - Mark Van Doren"

"Rob Morrow - Dick Goodwin"

"John Turturro - Herbert Stempel"

"Ralph Fiennes - Charles Van Doren"

"Rep. Derounian: Mr Van Doren, I'm also from New York, a different part of New York. I'm happy that you made the statement, but I cannot agree with most of my colleagues. You see, I don't think an adult of your intelligence ought to be commended for simply, at long last, telling the truth."

"Martin Rittenhome: You see, the audience didn't tune in to watch some amazing display of intellectual ability. They just wanted to watch the money."

"Mark Van Doren: For $64,000, I hope they ask you the meaning of life."

"I remember five-six years ago my uncle Harold told my aunt about this affair he had. It was a sort of mildly upsetting event in my family... The affair was over, something like eight years. So I remember asking him, "Why did you tell her? You got away with it." And I'll never forget what he said. It was the getting away with it part that he couldn't live with."

"And they love me for the same reason they used to hate me, because I'm the guy who knows everything."

"[Referring to television] That box is the biggest thing since Gutenberg invented the printing press, and I'm the biggest thing on it."

"You know why they call them Indians? Because Columbus thought he was in India. They're Indians because some white guy got lost."

"You want to know what? If I do nothing else I will convince them that Herbert Stempel knows what won the goddamned Academy Award for best picture of 1955; that's what I'm gonna accomplish."

"[To his wife] You wanna be worshipped? Go to India and moo."

"[To a reporter outside the Congressional hearing room] You know what the problem with you bums is? You never leave a guy alone unless you're leaving him alone."

"This week on Twenty One, watch Herb Stempel be fed to the Columbia lions. Watch Charles Van Doren eat his first kosher meal on Twenty One."

"Charles Van Doren — he wouldn't know the answer to a doorbell if you didn't give it to him."

"Compare with the real statement made by Charles Van Doren."

"Mira Sorvino - Sandra Goodwin"

"Free food for the poor!"

"Yep, it's special. (referring to Sam's recently purchased bike)"

"What you want to be on the lookout for is transcendent reality. Seeing in and seeing out."

"Speed kills or worse. It could make you insane."

"Jennifer Bini Taylor - Rita"

"Wade Phillips - Referee (uncredited)"

"Sam Hazlewood - Himself (Bourbon Bowl Crowd)"

"Bill Cowher - Himself (Pittsburgh Steelers coach)"

"Lawrence Taylor - Himself (LT's Louisiana Lightning Training Football Camp)"

"Dan Patrick - Himself (ESPN Sports commentator)"

"Lee Corso - Himself (ESPN Sports commentator)"

"Chris Fowler - Himself (ESPN Sports commentator)"

"Lynn Swann - Himself (ABC Sports commentator)"