- Man in Black: You believe in God, Lawrence? Did Ford saddle you with that particular affliction?
- Lawrence: Ain't given the matter much thought one way or the other.
- Man in Black: Well, if you did, you'd believe that everything you do's being watched by some all-seeing eye. Every choice, every little indiscretion. And when you die all your sins are tallied up, judgment is rendered.
- Lawrence: And my immortal soul gets cast down into some dark place? Always sounded like bullshit to me.
- Man in Black: Yeah, in the real world you'd probably be right. Just some fairy tale to convince people to behave, pay their taxes, not take a machete to their neighbors. That's why your world exists. They wanted a place hidden from God. A place they could sin in peace. But we were watching them. We were tallying up all their sins, all their choices. Course, judgment wasn't the point. We had something else in mind entirely.
- William: Turns out you're not even a thing, you're a reflection. You know who loves staring at their own reflection? Everybody.
- Arnold Weber: You and Charlie have quite a lot in common, you know. You both see it so clearly. The beauty of it, the possibility of it. So many people have stopped seeing it altogether. The wonder.
- Dolores Abernathy: Maybe they don't have the courage. A strange new light can be just as frightening as the dark.
- James Delos: My fuckup of a son invested in this place because he believed in the future. I'm not interested in the future. I'm not interested in fantasies. I'm interested in reality.
- William: I think in 20 years this will be the only reality that matters.
- James Delos: Maybe so, but I'll be long gone by then. Meanwhile, I don't wanna underwrite some fuckin' investment banker's voyage of self-discovery. That's not a business.
- William: You're right. This place is a fantasy. Nothing here is real. Except one thing: The guests. Half of your marketing budget goes to trying to figure out what people want. Because they don't know. But here, they're free. Nobody's watching. Nobody's judging. At least that's what we tell them. This is the only place in the world where you get to see people for who they really are. And if you don't see the business in that, then you're not the businessman that I thought you were.