- [via telepathy]
- Eugene Allerton: I'm not queer. Lee... I'm not queer.
- William Lee: I know.
- Eugene Allerton: I'm disembodied.
- Doctor Cotter: What are you so afraid of? Hmm? Door's already open. Can't close it now. All you can do is look away. But why would you?
- William Lee: Mimicking Bobo: No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything that is alive. In Normal Voice: The difficulty is to convince someone else he is really part of you.
- William Lee: I know telepathy to be a fact since I've experienced it myself. What interests me is how I can use it, you know? In South America, at the headwaters of the Amazon, grows a plant called yage which is supposed to increase telepathic sensitivity. Medicine men use it in their work and a Columbian scientist, whose, um, name escapes me, isolated from yage a drug he calls telepathine. I read all this in a magazine article. Later, I see in another article the Russians are using yage in experiments on slave labor. It seems they want to induce states of automatic obedience and ultimately, of course, thought control.
- Winston Moor: Thanks for running interference, Tom. I hope he got the idea. I like the guy, but I can't stand to be alone with him. He keeps trying to go to bed with me. That's what I don't like about queers. You can't keep it on the basis of friendship.
- William Lee: Communication without speaking, on the level of intuition, it's.
- John Dumé: Who is it that you're trying so desperately to communicate with? Your wife?