Agent Devlin: Everybody's got a theory on the increasing violence in our society.
Agent Emmerich: My wife thinks it's the artificial hormones in beef.
Agent Devlin: What's your take?
Frank Black: I don't think it's the beef.
Frank Black: I'm not depressed. Just quiet.
Catherine's Rapist: Would you, could you, die for God?
Frank Black: We live in a world where too many people won't go far enough... won't do what they know is right... what they believe. I don't know how or why it got this way but the world has become so complicated, to involve yourself in someone else's problems is to invite them needlessly on yourself.
Polaroid Man: I smell bacon, I smell pork. Run little piggy, I got a fork.
The Old Man: Serial killers, mass murderers, it's all genetics. Inevitability. You have no idea about... true evil.
Jordan Black: Will we always be together?
Frank Black: Of course.
Jordan Black: Forever?
Frank Black: Well, nobody gets forever.
Peter Watts: You know, that for almost the entire history of Western civilization this month has been a holy time. The Druids, winter solstice, Hannakah, the Romans converted Saternali into Christmas. Imagine that, Christ wasn't even born on this day. Maybe not even ninteen hundred ninety-seven years ago. So no-one knows for sure when the millennium really begins. And how much time is left.
William Garry: Do you know what it's like to scream in silence three hundred and sixty five days of the year?
Alex Ventoux: God doesn't move us by telling us the facts. He moves us by pains and contradictions. He's given me a lack of understanding: not answers, but questions. An invitation to marvel.
Bob Bletcher: This Millennium Group - They really believe all that stuff - Nostradamus and Revelations, the destruction of the world?
Frank Black: They believe we can't just sit back and hope for a happy ending.
Barman: What can I get'cha?
The Judge: Rain without, rain within. A glass of water.
Peter Watts: St. Augustine said that miracles are not contrary to nature, only what we know about nature.
Frank Black: I'm not here to educate you.
Therapist: Why are you here, Frank? You're here because you have people that need you to get well.
Frank Black: I'm not sure if I want to get well this time.
