Éva :
_L'homme existe depuis combien de temps?

Nellie :
_Quoi?

Éva :
_Sérieusement... depuis combien de temps l’être humain est sur Terre?

Nellie :
_100... 200 000 ans.

Éva :
_D'accord. Depuis combien de temps on a l'électricité?

Nellie :
_140.

Éva :
_Très bien. Tu comprends?
Ça! Tout ça...

Nellie :
_C'est tout ce que nous avons.

Éva :
_On a l'une et l'autre.
On a plein de nourriture. On sait comment en avoir plus. Nous ne sommes plus en sécurité ici.
Tout ira bien, Nellie.
C'est ce qu'on doit faire.

Nellie :
_Laisse-moi réfléchir.

Jeffrey Goines: There's the television. It's all right there - all right there. Look, listen, kneel, pray. Commercials! We're not productive anymore. We don't make things anymore. It's all automated. What are we *for* then? We're consumers, Jim. Yeah. Okay, okay. Buy a lot of stuff, you're a good citizen. But if you don't buy a lot of stuff, if you don't, what are you then, I ask you? What? Mentally *ill*. Fact, Jim, fact - if you don't buy things - toilet paper, new cars, computerized yo-yos, electrically-operated sexual devices, stereo systems with brain-implanted headphones, screwdrivers with miniature built-in radar devices, voice-activated computers...

James Cole: I am insane. And you are my insanity.

Dr. Owen Fletcher: Kathryn, you're a rational person. You're a trained psychiatrist. You know the difference between what's real and what's not.
Dr. Kathryn Railly: And what we say is the truth is what everybody accepts. Right, Owen? I mean, psychiatry: it's the latest religion. We decide what's right and wrong. We decide who's crazy or not. I'm in trouble here. I'm losing my faith.

Est-ce une faute grave que d'être nain?!