- Eddie Kessler: Mr. Thompson is a part of everything. He is in the sky and sea. He is in the dreams of children at night. He is all that there is, forever.
- Chalky White: [turning to Chalky as he leaves] I like this room. One looks down and sees many secret things. You know what I saw?
- Chalky White: No.
- Valentin Narcisse: A servant pretending to be a king.
- [He leaves]
- Dunn Purnsley: [sarcastically to Alma as she leaves] Get your story all told?
- Valentin Narcisse: [contemptuously to Dunn after she goes past him without saying anything] The Negro in question...
- Dunn Purnsley: What that make you?
- Valentin Narcisse: Merely another child of God.