“I don't know where I'm being taken. I don't know what I'll find, beyond the earth and sky. But I'm not afraid to go. Maybe the things I don't understand will be clearer there, like when a fog blows away. Maybe Doris will be there. And maybe there I can tell her all those things they don't have words for here.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Ed Crane

“- Charlie Babbitt: Listen, Ray, our dad died, that means he's not with us anymore. Did they tell you about that?
- Raymond Babbitt: I don't know.
- Charlie Babbitt: You don't know if they told you or you don't know what death is?
- Raymond Babbitt: I don't know.”
Tom Cruise - Charlie Babbitt
Dustin Hoffman - Raymond Babbitt

“Trying to make these policemen understand something is harder than doing it yourself.”
Billie Burke - Mrs. Topper

“This government of ours doesn't realise what sort of a world we're living in.”
David Horne - Evans, Foreign Editor

“If you know what's good for you, take those weapons home and burn them! And then think... think of this country and of the law that makes it what it is. Think of a world crying for this very law! And maybe you'll understand why you ought to guard it.”
Ronald Colman - Professor Michael Lightcap