- Dr. James K. Mantleray: Why don't I ask you the most important question. What do you think is wrong with you?
- Owen Milgrim: You know that movie, "It's a Wonderful Life"?
- Dr. James K. Mantleray: Yes.
- Owen Milgrim: If that happened to me, there would be no difference in the world. What's wrong isn't that I'm sick... it's that I don't matter.
- Annie Landsberg: If we were still in there what would you have used it for? What fantasy would you have gone into?
- Owen Milgrim: It's stupid
- Annie Landsberg: You can tell me. I'm your new pharma-trial friend.
- Owen Milgrim: I had a plan. We were gonna go somewhere together, we were in a car we were driving really fast someone was chasing us, I don't know who, it felt like an escape i was just laughing, and i had a huge smile on my face it hurt it was so big. We were just two people looking out for each other. It's stupid.
- Annie Landsberg: That doesn't sound stupid to me.
- Dr. Greta Mantleray: I remember the masturbation binges after your father disappeared.
- Dr. James K. Mantleray: Back to the matter at hand...
- Dr. Greta Mantleray: Ah, masturbation reference.
- Dr. James K. Mantleray: Stop it!
- Dr. Greta Mantleray: Seven years ago, and shortly after you and your therapist mother stopped speaking, you decided to develop a sequence of drugs that would eliminate therapy altogether.But now your mother computer is sad, and so you had to call in your real mother to talk to her about her feelings.
- Dr. Greta Mantleray: How many of your subjects have ended up catatonic?
- Dr. James K. Mantleray: Zero... roughly.
- Annie Landsberg: What are your tics?
- 7: When I get anxious, I, um end up eating stuff.
- Annie Landsberg: Like junk food?
- 7: Yeah. Mmm. And dryer sheets. Pencil shavings. Hair from our brushes.
- Annie Landsberg: [shrugs] What's normal, anyway?
- Dr. Greta Mantleray: Gas up the Miata.
- Owen Milgrim: It felt like she was really there.
- Dr. James K. Mantleray: Well, of course she wasn't really there. That was just your brain lying to your mind, and your mind was listening.
- Dr. James K. Mantleray: Never mind the technical details, Mother. I've simply found an elegant way to fix people.
- Dr. Greta Mantleray: Lobotomies were considered elegant when Moniz invented them.
- Dr. James K. Mantleray: The moment I light this, I need you to put your lips around the tip and suck.
- Dr. Greta Mantleray: Oh, freebasing. What year were you born?
- Dr. James K. Mantleray: 1977.
- Dr. Greta Mantleray: Ah, yes. That was the night.
- James Mantleray: My mother is a venomous, egotistical charlatan who deploys catchphrases and platitudes and therapies of the day in order to dupe millions of people out of their money and their happiness.my mother sells happiness.She sells it, then it crumbles in your hand the minute you're out of earshot of her magical thinking and her platitudes and her invented words, and her primal yawps, and her steps to success.if I brought her here, she would destroy everything that I ever built because that's what my mother does.