- Nobusuke Tagomi: You may not understand this. I live by a 5,000 year old book. I ask it questions as if it were alive. It is alive. It tells me you have a purpose. It says superior person in an inferior position, accepting a task graciously brings good fortune to all.
- Mark Sampson: Don't you do art?
- Frank Frink: But no one wants to buy it.
- Mark Sampson: Then do it for yourself! Beauty is important, Frank. It gives us hope.