- Obergruppenführer John Smith: [about forced volunteers] Just an average girl, far as I could see, couldn't have been more than 18.
- Hawthorne Abendsen: "Average." Hmm. I wonder if her mother and father felt the same way, no?
- Himmler: You don't think they're planning to target Die Nebenwelt?
- Obergruppenführer John Smith: Tagomi made no direct threats, sir.
- Himmler: The Japanese made no direct threats before Pearl Harbor...
- Obergruppenführer John Smith: So this little, uh, probe that you all led into the machine, what exactly is it you think you saw there?
- Juliana Crain: Failure.
- Obergruppenführer John Smith: Great success is built on failure.