- Stevie: She was washing the dishes. And she turned on the garabge disposal. And there was something stuck in it, with this metal thing. It wasn't even a knife or a fork. Some kind of metal thing. And when she turned it on, it shot that metal thing right up into her face. Shot it up just like a gun. Isn't that bad? It shot it up right through her eyeball!
- Old man: I heard a man on TV one time say that paranoia is just another word for heightened awareness.
- Old man: It ain't a thing, it's a signal... a pulse, kinda like a voice. So what you've got to do is to get rid of anything in your house that might have ears to hear it.
- David Rockland: We had a microwave and everything, but Mom just never used it. She was scared of it, she says it could make you sterile.
- Stevie: [about the dead grass surrounding his late neighbor's house] You see all that grass that's dead and everyhting? He used to say we did that. He used to say we'd sneak around at night and put poison on it.