- Dr. Boulting - Mitchell's Assistant: Doyou seriously believe that you've established contact with Mars?
- Chris Cronyn: [Somewhat annoyed] Well, you take pictures of it. Why shouldn't I talk to it?
- Stewart Cronyn: How bout pi?
- Linda Cronyn: That's hardly the way to offer it, Stew, and by the size of that slice I doubt there is anything left.
- Russian Commissar: That will silence their hymns. What do these superstitious peasants think? They cannot compete against our guns!
- Franz Calder: He who follows the tyrant's banner shall wear the tyrant's chains. He who carries God's banner shall know everlasting life!
- Arjenian: You expect me to to tell them that?
- Franz Calder: What you tell them is no concern of mine.
- Linda Cronyn: [to Chris] We've lived on the edge of a volcano all our lives. One day it'll boil over.