- Twisty the Clown: I was the special children's clown to Rusty Westchester's Traveling Carnival. I made 'em laugh. I love the children. But not the freaks.
- Elsa Mars: My talent has been known to render men speechless, but you'll have to get over it if we are going to work together.
- Edward Mordrake: It is not your talent that renders me speechless. It is your delusional ignorance.
- Elsa Mars: Excuse me?
- Edward Mordrake: You are a tattered waste of oxygen who bolsters herself with contempt for others. I am not here to take you on to greatness, woman. I am here to take someone with me to the other side, perhaps you.