- [first lines]
- Interviewer: Dr. Harber, before we're live, I just wanted to say thank you for choosing me.
- Thomas: [warming up his voice] Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
- Interviewer: The rich history you have with other journalists...
- Thomas: I chose you precisely because we don't have a history. Now, don't fuck it up.
- Producer: Fifteen seconds...
- Isla: Sometimes I feel like I'm taking someone else's spot and then I feel sad. How do you mean? Like, being here alive is a waste because... I don't enjoy it, I'm not happy or grateful... and I'm taking a spot away from someone who maybe would've gotten something more out of it.
- Will: Yeah. I guess I don't think it works that way.
- Will: We're a bunch of people running around making the same mistakes over and over, and I don't know why we think it'll be different somewhere else unless we learn what we're supposed to while we're here.
- Interviewer: Death used to be something we just had to live with, and now it's a convenient way to escape pain. That's okay.
- Will: That's okay? Another plane of existence, maybe. Who knows? But I look around, I see a lot of people jumping out of planes hoping they're gonna grow wings. And reality and fantasy are mutually exclusive. They don't exist in the same space.
- Will: I think it's our instinct to search for meaning, and when there is none we create meaning and we lie, we just lie to ourselves.
- Will: I don't know what this is, but if there's a meaning to any of it, I think it's not hitting the reset button, even if things get really rough.
- Thomas: [to the assembled group] We're programmed to process our experiences as having a beginning and an end, when, in reality... doesn't exist. It's just one long, drawn-out middle.
- Thomas: When you see a train leave the station... do you need to know where it's going to understand that you saw it leave?
- Interviewer: It's a tough pill to swallow.
- Thomas: At one point, so was the Earth being round.
- Thomas: And what aspect of regaining normalcy after losing someone... was the most difficult.
- Isla: Inanimate objects, maybe? Like...
- Isla: My coffee table. I've had it for years and I've probably looked at it a million time, but after he...
- Isla: Familiar objects just became distorted and unfamiliar. I started to hate my ceiling fan, me cereal bowl, me tea kettle.
- Isla: I don't really like talking about myself like this.
- Thomas: You don't have to like it. We think about ourselves every day. Everything is from own perspective. So, as much as you may not want to indulge yourself in looking at your most inner thoughts, they're there. Make no mistake. They are there.