Nick Nolte credited as playing...
Father Harlan
- Father Harlan: It all depends on how you look at it; we're either half way to heaven or half way to hell.
- [last lines]
- Father Harlan: In that journey of dying, you see many things. But all issues I had passed. Because I was to be a witness. A helper. And that's the thing, I think, is important about death, is the ability for us to be witnesses. Not only for our births of coming in, but going out. And that's what we have here. We've lost our town. It's gone. But maybe there's a birth someplace else. Maybe there's a blessing from that experience. I'm no longer afraid of death, but it's a lesson that's taken me 60 years to learn.