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"Each man told you a story of the tribe. A history. They didn't expect you to remember everything. They just wanted you to hear the words. When they finished, they picked you up and handed you man to man so that you would know each one of them was your father. These are your stories and those men are your fathers."
- One Who Waits to Ed |
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"And while our mental gears are shifted into memory; I'd like to call a little
attention to a fellow that we've gotten pretty attached to here in the last
few months. A guy that we refer to as Dr. Fleischman. Well, he might just go
away for two weeks...well, how many people know about Maggie's dream? Wow.
Okay. All right. Sure. He can come back. And true, even if he doesn't, we
still have Dave...but I'd like to take a little time now to pay our respects
to Joel while we still can."
- Chris at the Founders' Day meeting |
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"I feel really bad about Elaine breaking up with him. I can't help but think
had she known about the plane wreck, she might have gone ahead and waited
until he was dead. I think that would have been the tactful way to handle it."
- Ruth Anne "remembers" Joel |
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"There's an old saying that if you come back to the place where you became a man, you will remember all those things you need to be happy... That saying never made sense to me, but I thought it was worth a try."
- One Who Waits to Ed |
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Ed: Just tell me why you did it.
Chris: Wildness, Ed. We're running out of it, even up here in Alaska. People need to be reminded that the world is unsafe and unpredictable, and at a moment's notice, they could lose everything, like that. I do it to remind them that chaos is always out there, lurking beyond the horizon. That, plus, sometimes, Ed,
sometimes you have to do something bad, just to know you're
alive.
- Ed & Chris, on the stolen radios |
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"Let me give it to you straight. I could never respect a man who did my
ironing."
- Barbara to Maurice |
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Ed: Boy, Rick sure was lucky.
Joel: Lucky? He's dead!
Ed: Yeah, but how many people get to get hit by a satellite. I'll bet he makes the Guiness Book of World Records.
- Ed and Joel observe Rick |
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"As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as
curses! Everything just happens as a question of probability. The
statistical likelihood of a specific event. For instance, if a man falls
asleep on a glacier, it is highly probable he will freeze to death. Likewise,
if a man sits on a mountainside, there is some probability, albeit slight,
that he will get hit by a satellite. Your having a relationship with those
men is inconsequential; it simply does not enter into the equation."
- Joel to Maggie |
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Joel: Have you ever seen a man with this kind of incredible, irresistible magnetism to the opposite sex?
Ed: James Bond.
Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality.
Ed: No thanks!
- Joel and Ed talk about Chris |
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"Personally, I don't believe in chronological age. Shelly could have an old soul and you could have a young one. In fact, she could even be older than you....Love knows no boundaries, Holling. Age, race, religion, sex. It mows them all down."
- Chris to Holling, on the age differences |
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"Used to be, when people took the marriage vow, 'Til Death Do Us Part,' meant just that. But as often as not these days, people take a look at each other after a few years in the marital sack and say, "See ya later, Jack." Maybe that's good. Wolves mate for life, but our species lives a lot longer, maybe too long to stay hitched to the same post. Well, individual opinion aside, divorce looks like it's here to stay. So instead of seeing it as a king of failure or dead end, why not celebrate divorce as the beginning of something? A fresh start. Another chance to step up to the big wheel. Like Swami Bodhidharma says, you can't have a thing until you let it go. In other words, when things look real bad, maybe it's better to find a new way of looking at them."
- Chris divorces Shelly and Wayne |
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Shelly: Hey Ed - you're an Indian. Is this Rick?
Ed: Oh, I don't know. But if Rick were to come back as a dog...I think he'd be
a terrier. |
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"The rainforest of my psyche has been sprayed with defoliant!"
- Bernard to Chris, on not having dreams |
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Einstein said God doesn't play dice with the universe, but I don't know--maybe not as a whole, but I think he gets a pretty big kick out of messing in peoples' back yards. - Chris |
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"On the sub-atomic level, everything is so bizarre, unfathomable. With magic, you have some control."
- Carnival guy to Chris |
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�The path to our destination is not always a straight one, Ed. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.�
- Leonard |
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Chris: It seems to me as you peel back the onion of the atom, as you get into smaller and smaller particles, you find that they might not be particles at all.
Subatomic particles might really just be vibrating waves of energy. The
essential building block of everything is nothing.
Circus Man: All is an illusion. That's what I hated about physics. What are you supposed to DO with information like that? |
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"What do women want?
I don't know, do you?"
"Same thing men want, only in prettier colors."
- Chris and Ed |
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Holling: I used to gaze at Shelly's feet� I'd see angels, flowers, swans.
Chris: Children playing?
Holling: That too. Yesterday all I saw was feet. |
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