- Edmond Bateman: I'm saying, Doc, maybe because I look ugly... maybe if a man looks ugly, he does ugly things.
- Dr. Richard Vollin: You are saying something profound.
- Judge Thatcher: I'll pay you any amount of money, Dr. Vollin,
- Dr. Richard Vollin: Money means nothing to me.
- Judge Thatcher: But someone is dying! Your obligation as a member of the medical profession...
- Dr. Richard Vollin: I respect no such obligation. I am a law unto myself!
- Judge Thatcher: But you have no human feeling? My daughter is dying!
- Dr. Richard Vollin: Death hasn't the same significance for me as it has for you.
- Dr. Richard Vollin: [to Judge Thatcher] But I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
- [laughs]
- Jean Thatcher: [after Vollin finishes playing the organ] You're not only a great surgeon, but a great musician, too! Extraordinary man... You're almost not a man! Almost...
- Dr. Richard Vollin: A god?
- Jean Thatcher: Yes!
- Dr. Richard Vollin: A god... with the pains of human emotions.