- Doctor Zonfeld: [describing Morlar to Brunel] Most of my patients find the world too much for them. He was too much for the world.
- John Morlar: [his first meeting with Zonfeld] I have a "gift" for disaster.
- Doctor Zonfeld: You seem to have survived it.
- John Morlar: I don't mean for me, I mean for others.
- Altropos - Fortune Teller: I have a very varied clientele: young girls who are pregnant, stockbrokers whose businesses are failing, middle-aged ladies in love with their hairdressers. We all need to know our destiny.
- John Morlar: She was an Irish bitch, priest-ridden, rosary-ragged and in desperate need of the consolation of the damned.
- Pennington: Did you ever see Morlar's eyes?
- Sgt. Duff: A man can't be done in because of his eyes Mr Pennington.
- Pennington: Maybe some should. The Church says there are demons in some people. And there are. I tell you straight, my Grace would be alive today if it hadn't been for him.
- Detective-inspector Brunel: He killed her?
- Pennington: He didn't take a gun to her. There are more ways than one of killing a cat.
- John Morlar: He isn't going to perform for us, is he?
- Patricia Morlar: No, but I see you are.
- John Morlar: We're performers all, aren't we? Me, the dutiful husband, you, the loving wife...
- Edward Parrish: I can see what Patricia means. You really don't deserve her.
- John Morlar: Nobody deserves Patricia. She was invented by God to test our belief in him.
