- Jack Hoskins: How many shrinks does it take to change a lightbulb? One. But the lightbulb really has to wanna change.
- Yunis Sablo: Here's the difference between you and me. You need this whole thing to make some kind of sense that you can live with. I just want it to end.
- Ralph Anderson: Okay, so, for you, um any kind of, um, negative behavior, uh, is due to either bad parenting, bad genes, uh, bad brain chemistry, right? There's no such thing, for you, as evil in the world without some rational explanation.
- Herbert Zucker: If I wanted to be a voodoo doctor, I'd have gone to voodoo med school.
- Jack Hoskins: You know, even when I was a kid, I didn't believe in anything. Not God. Not the devil. Santa Claus. Superman. Boogeyman. None of it. But now, I believe. I very much fucking believe there's something else out there that's worse than I ever imagined.
- Holly Gibney: You're right to believe.
- Jack Hoskins: Why did it pick me?
- Holly Gibney: This thing. It's drawn to pain.
- Jack Hoskins: Mm.
- Holly Gibney: Pain is its wine. That's why you. You've been wronged all your life.