- Smerdjakov: If you'll permit a comment, sir, you're not at all like your brother Dmitri.
- Ivan Karamazov: Half-brother.
- Smerdjakov: You're different from all of them. I could see that the first minute you arrived yesterday. Intelligence, audacity, cleverness...
- Ivan Karamazov: You've just never met anyone who lives in Moscow.
- Smerdjakov: No sir, it's those magazine articles you wrote, the ones about crime.
- Ivan Karamazov: [pauses] You enjoyed them.
- Smerdjakov: [takes out a magazine clipping, reads it] There is nothing in the world to make man love their neighbors. If there is no God, then nothing can be immoral. Everything becomes lawful, even crime. Crime becomes not only lawful, but inevitable.
- Alexi Karamazov: How can anybody spend five thousand rubles at one time?
- Dmitri Karamazov: I admit it requires skill, brother.