- Karen Kawalski: [seeing John Doe has taken out all his furniture and left it in the hallway] How Feng Shui of you. I dig it, Doe. Very minimalist. Just you and the walls.
- Karen Kawalski: [sees an expensive lamp with the discarded furniture] Damn! I think this lamp costs more than my entire apartment. How are you so loaded?
- Karen Kawalski: [sees John Doe's erratic scribblings all over the walls] Oh! Whoa, Nelly! Uh, at what point do I start worrying about you cutting off an ear?
- Karen Kawalski: [meeting Frank Hayes for the first time] Hey, Five-O. Groovy that you're here. You know, I need an opinion. Both of you.
- Karen Kawalski: [shows John and Frank two of her paintings] All right. Cubism assignment. Which one floats you the most? Chaos? Or Order?
- Karen Kawalski: [Frank points to Order, John points to Chaos] You two deserve each other.
- John Doe: [examining a sophisticated alarm system] AXT 3200. 433 megahertz, 12 pyroelectric sensors create a wavelength spiderweb sensitive to skin temperatures above 92.6 degrees.
- Frank Hayes: What are you, battery-operated or something? Anyway, that doesn't explain how the blood got in there.
- Jewelry Saleswoman: [Trying to sell Doe a ring] Now, what size are you?
- Jewelry Saleswoman: Not sure. But I do know that fingernails grow 6.8 times faster than toenails.
- Jewelry Saleswoman: That is interesting. Here, let's try this one.