- Thomas Janes: Talent excuses cruelty. Don't you know that?
- Rich Janes: Not talent. Genius maybe. You're talented, Thomas. The world is full of talented assholes.
- Maren Hontvedt: I have discovered in my life that it is not always the nature of god nor why he may bring in one night pleasure & death & rage & tenderness all intermingled so that one can barely distinguish one from the other... and it is all that one can do to hang onto sanity.