Sssssss (1973)

Strother Martin: Dr. Carl Stoner

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• David Blake : I feel so sleepy.

  Dr. Carl Stoner : It's the effect of the inoculation. You'll sleep very soundly tonight, David, and perhaps even through tomorrow. And if you're lucky, you may experience what few persons have ever known and lived to recall. You see, the venom of the cobra is one of nature's strongest hallucinogens!

• Dr. Carl Stoner : I think I could turn to live with animals. They are so placid, so self contained. I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lay awake in the dark and weep for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God. Not one is dissatisfied; not one is demented with the mania of owning things; not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago; not one is respectable, or unhappy over the whole earth. Walt Whitman, Harry. A great man.

• Kogen : You are a real and a bona fide genius. First one I ever met.

  Dr. Carl Stoner : It's rare to be appreciated for one's failures.

• Dr. Carl Stoner : [Speaking to Harry the snake]  You're asking me questions, Harry, and I hear you. A scientist cannot afford the indulgence of guilt. And after all, if God doesn't want me to continue, means of my disposal are always at his command.

• Dr. Carl Stoner : [to a snake]  You African bastard!