Bill: You mother-whoring Irish nigger.
Bill: Pistols? Amsterdam Vallon: No pistols. Bill: Good boy.
Caden Cotard: I don't know what I'm doing.
War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.
The world you once knew is no more for you.
California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.
I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors - one of the great journeys, in my book.
Priest Vallon: Don't never look away.
Priest Vallon: Prepare to meet the true lord.
Shang: [Runs at the soldiers] Bastards!
Caden Cotard: I breathe your name on every exhalation.
I had the 'War of the Worlds' comic book. I had lots of comic books.
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