- Janos Bartok: Take Ramos. He studied comparative theology at Harvard.
- Ernest Pratt: Really? Theology?
- Huitzilopochtli Ramos: A good scientist always hedges his bets.
- Janos Bartok: You're my neighbors. I thought you were all my friends! What have I done to deserve this? This is America; these things don't happen here. We are free to live as we choose to live. I come from a country where that is not true. And so do some of you. Have you forgotten what it was like? Have you forgotten why you came here?
- [to the towns people after putting out the fire they set to his vehicle]