- Laszlo Kreizler: Every mind is like the ocean, Miss Hayward. There's surface and depth in all of us.
- John Moore: V, this is Dr. Kreizler.
- Violet Hayward: The famous Dr. Kreizler? The alienist?
- Laszlo Kreizler: I hazard that I'm more derided than acclaimed.
- Violet Hayward: I fear if I spoke with you at any great length you would know the deep recesses of my mind.
- [chuckles]
- Laszlo Kreizler: Or the shimmering shadows.
- John Moore: Laszo... Sometimes you go too far.
- [shakes his head]
- Stevie Taggert: [waiting on carriage] Dr. Kreizler, ain't we wastin' our time?
- Laszlo Kreizler: Time is never wasted when one is thinking. That is what is wondrous about the human mind.
- [pauses]
- Laszlo Kreizler: We may appear still, yet all the time, in here
- [points to his head]
- Laszlo Kreizler: , we're conducting symphonies, solving the most arduous mathematical problems, and contemplating the mysteries of the universe.