"Jakob Gerst: So we've been considering those who wish to control others through their insecurity and their narcissism. To study Nietzsche psychobiographically may seem naive. Wasn't it Nietzsche's work itself, which through deconstructive and post-structuralist readings induced the death of psychobiography?"

"The beauty about antisocial behavior is that it takes you away from other people, however briefly."

"All addiction is progressive. The addict always needs to take greater risks."

"Nick used to say: "Death is always there. It's the only thing that's real." Except maybe sex sometimes."

"If you follow inter-subjectivity to its natural end, aren't you asking who's the patient and who's the doctor?"

"You know how some guys are into blondes, and some guys are into killers?"

"When you think about fucking me, and I know you do, how do you picture it... doctor?"

"[to Glass] You know what I like about you? You enjoy being in control. Like me."

"Even Oedipus didn't see his mother coming."

"Jim Carrey - Adult Joe Wenteworth"

"David Strathairn - Rev. Russell"

"Oliver Platt - Ben Goodrich"

"Ashley Judd - Rebecca Wenteworth"

"Joseph Mazzello - Joe Wenteworth"

"Ian Michael Smith - Simon Birch"

"Miss Leavey: Help. Please. I'm gonna strangle him. I swear to God I'm gonna strangle that little granite mouse if it's the last thing I do."

"Rebecca Wenteworth: Do your thing, Simon! Show 'em how it's done!"

"Joe Wenteworth: [At Simon's bed in the hospital] Jesus, Simon, you look like shit."

"Joe Wenteworth: Okay, you grabbed her boobs, and you pulled her into the manger. Big deal. It could've happened to anybody. Well, maybe not anybody."

"Winter left its icy chill behind and soon it was spring, then summer again. Grandmother passed away that June following a stroke. And because Hilde was always so content to just follow her lead...she had a stroke of her own and died in July. We buried them side by side. It's the way they would've wanted it. Ben Goodrich legally adopted me just two days before my thirteenth birthday. Not a day goes by that I don't thank God for bringing him into my life. With Simon's help, I had finally found my real father."

"Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It responds like a snail to our impatience...then it races like a gazelle when you can't catch your breath."

"When someone you love dies, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming. What I remember most to this day was my mother's scent and how I hated it when it began to disappear. First from her closets and drawers, then from her dresses that she had sewed herself and finally, from her bedsheets and pillowcases."

"Simon's father owned the Birch Granite Company. Mr. Birch was a big believer in the rock and just about everything in their house was made from granite, including Mr. Birch."

"[At the birth scene of Simon Birch.] Simon Birch was the smallest delivery ever recorded in the history of Gravestown Memorial Hospital."

"Our Sunday school teacher was an unhappy woman by the name of Miss Leavey. Her name suited her perfectly as she was always leaving class."

"[Visiting Simon's grave.] I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice, not because of his voice or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death but because he is the reason I believe in God. What faith I have, I owe it to Simon Birch, a boy I grew up with in Gravestown, Maine. It is Simon who had me a believer."

"[on the bus that plunged into a lake] Stop it! [Everyone looks around] I'm not going to let anything happen to any of you, understand?"

"[At Rebecca's tombstone.] Into paradise...may the angels...lead you."

"Sometimes, I don't know where the bullshit ends and the truth begins."

"Michael Hinton (uncredited) - band drummer"

"Wallace Shawn - Assistant insurance man"