- John Trent: This shit really sells doesn't it?
- Linda Styles: More than you'd think. Surprised?
- John Trent: Lady, nothing surprises me anymore. We fucked up the air, the water, we fucked up each other. Why don't we just finish the job by flushing our brains down the toilet?
- John Trent: [On hearing "It's Only Just Begun" playing while in his asylum cell] Oh, no, not The Carpenters...
- Linda Styles: A reality is just what we tell each other it is. Sane and insane could easily switch places, if the insane were to become the majority. You would find yourself locked in a padded cell, wondering what happened to the world.
- Scrawny Teen: I can see.
- John Trent: Excuse me?
- Scrawny Teen: He sees you.
- John Trent: Great, uh... tell him I say hi.
- Sutter Cane: [to Trent, while in a confessional inside the black church] Do you want to know the problem with places like this? With religion, in general? It's never known how to convey the anatomy of horror. Religion seeks discipline through fear... yet doesn't understand the true nature of creation. No one's ever believed it enough to make it real. The same cannot be said of my work.
- John Trent: Every species can smell its own extinction. The last ones left won't have a pretty time with it. In ten years, maybe less, the human race will just be a bedtime story for their children. A myth, nothing more.
- John Trent: I'm not insane, you hear me! I'M NOT INSANE!
- Inmate 1: I'm not if he's not!
- Inmate 2: Me neither!
- John Trent: A word of advice. You want to pull a scam, don't make your wife a partner. And if you do, don't fuck around behind her back.
- John Trent: You're waiting to hear about my 'them', aren't you?
- Dr. Wrenn: Your what?
- John Trent: My 'them'. Every paranoid schizophrenic has one; a 'them', a 'they', an 'it'. And you want to hear about my 'them', don't you?
- Dr. Wrenn: I want to know how you got here.
- John Trent: Things are turning to shit out there, aren't they?
- Reporter: [as footage of crazed Sutter Cane fans rioting outside bookstores is shown] When does fiction become religion?
- John Trent: This is a rotten way to end it.
- Sutter Cane: This is not the ending. You haven't read it yet.
- John Trent: This book is going to drive people absolutely mad!
- Jackson Harglow: Well, let's hope so. The movie comes out next month.
- John Trent: Lady, nothing surprises me. We fucked up the air, the water, we've fucked up each other. Why don't we finish the job by flushing our brains down the toilet?
- Dr. Wrenn: [re: Trent] Did he make any requests?
- Saperstein: Just... one. A, uh... single black crayon.
- Linda Styles: Why don't you try reading his stuff? See if you can get it.
- John Trent: Got any on tape?