- Captain Brownlee: You know what people call us whalers? They say we're refugees from civilisation.
- Patrick Sumner: Well, that sounds very appealing to me.
- Captain Brownlee: Sure. But you'd be wise to remember that at some point you have to return.
- Patrick Sumner: [reading the label on a medicine flask] "Spirit of Squills." What was the last surgeon, a fucking druid?
- Patrick Sumner: Maybe cleverness will get you nowhere. Maybe it is only the stupid, the brilliantly stupid, who will inherit the earth.