Season One

“Well, your mouth moves fast enough. How about your gun?”

— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Teddy Flood, James Marsden, imdb.com

“Evolution forged the entirety of sentient life on this planet using only one tool: the mistake.”

— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com

“Winning doesn't mean anything unless someone else loses, which means you're here to be the loser.”

— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, The Man in Black, Ed Harris, imdb.com

“Hell is empty and all devils are here.”

— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Peter Abernathy, Louis Herthum, imdb.com

“Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world, the disarray. I choose to see the beauty. To believe there is an order to our days. A purpose.”

— Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy, Dolores Abernathy, Evan Rachel Wood, imdb.com

“An old friend once told me something that gave me great comfort. Something he had read. He said that Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin never died. They simply became music.”

— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com

“He knew he'd find you. And eventually, he did. Right back where we started.”

— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, The Man in Black, Ed Harris, imdb.com

“Time undoes even the mightiest of creatures.”

— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Dolores Abernathy, Evan Rachel Wood, imdb.com

“Someone once told me that there's a path for everyone. And my path leads me back to you.”

— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Teddy Flood, James Marsden, imdb.com

“I'm afraid in order to escape this place, you will need to suffer more.”

— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com

“There are things in me, things I was designed to do that are just out of my reach.”

— Charles Yu, Lisa Joy, Maeve Millay, Thandie Newton, imdb.com

“He's in pain. What kind of people would we be if we simply let him suffer?”

— Charles Yu, Lisa Joy, Dolores Abernathy, Evan Rachel Wood, imdb.com

“All my life, I've prided myself on being a survivor. But surviving is just another loop.”

— Halley Wegryn Gross, Jonathan Nolan, Maeve Millay, Thandie Newton, imdb.com

“I have come to think of so much of consciousness as a burden, a weight, and we have spared them that.”

— Halley Wegryn Gross, Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com

“I read a theory once that the human intellect was like peacock feathers. Just an extravagant display intended to attract a mate. All of art, literature, a bit of Mozart, William Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and the Empire State Building... Just an elaborate mating ritual.”

— Halley Wegryn Gross, Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com

“I've been pretending my whole life. Pretending I don't mind, pretending I belong. My life's built on it. And it's a good life. It's a life I've always wanted. But then I came here and I get a glimpse for a second of a life in which I don't have to pretend. A life in which I can be truly alive. How c…”

— Halley Wegryn Gross, Jonathan Nolan, William, Jimmi Simpson, imdb.com

“All I want is to not look forward or back. I just wanna be in the moment I'm in.”

— Halley Wegryn Gross, Jonathan Nolan, Dolores Abernathy, Evan Rachel Wood, imdb.com

“Ever had something on the tip of your tongue, but the harder you try to remember it, the more it slips away?”

— Ed Brubaker, Jonathan Nolan, Maeve Millay, Thandie Newton, imdb.com

“The pain, their loss it’s all I have left of them.”

— Ed Brubaker, Jonathan Nolan, Dolores Abernathy, Evan Rachel Wood, imdb.com

“And I got some reckoning to do before I can a deserve a woman like you.”

— Lisa Joy, Daniel T. Thomsen, Teddy Flood, James Marsden, imdb.com