- Royale: [to David] When God makes something special, He makes it fragile. When we make something, we want to keep it alive forever.
- Royale: See, I'm the rarefied air here.
- [pause]
- Royale: My world is a brochure.
- [pause]
- Royale: You know what rich people want?
- David Carmichael: No.
- Royale: Everything. I facilitate. There's some ugly in it, but all in all, it's a fine solution to Mother Nature's fuck-up inside the core of humanity. But it's not the only world here. Some people don't want them pretty. They want the metal.
- Royale: I don't get paid to give these sickos what they want. I get paid to keep the world from finding out what these sickos want. I am discretion. If I did know, I wouldn't tell you. But I don't.
- George: Yes, Hamilton found her
- [Melissa]
- George: at the entrance of the building. She was lost. And I... I thought she was a synthetic. You say she was human?
- David Carmichael: Yeah
- George: She was only here for a few hours. She seemed... Well, she seemed frightened. I didn't ask her why.
- David Carmichael: A young girl turns up on your doorstep frightened, and you didn't ask any questions?
- George: When you don't like to answer questions, you quickly learn not to ask any.
- David Carmichael: I also think you ought to investigate some of your employees. Royale, for example.
- Marlon Veidt: You look, but you do not see, David. David, the man with the name of the second and greatest King of Israel. The giant slayer. Hmm? Are you a man of religion, David?
- David Carmichael: I can't say that I am.
- Marlon Veidt: Ah! See, I disagree. You have a God. The God of reason. But there is another God. Hmm? The God of power. And for Zone 414... I am that God. Do you understand? Can you reach into your working-class mind and see a glimpse of my responsibility? Can you, David? The man with the name of a king... who thinks like a soldier. The purpose of a king is not to grieve his princess. It is to protect his kingdom. You are a small man, David. Hmm. A very small man. And if you have any intention of destroying what I have built, if you stand in the way of the God of power, he will crush you under his heel! I am not a Goliath that you can slay. I am not.