Se7en

Gluttony.  Greed.  Sloth.  Envy.  Wrath.  Pride.  Lust.

"Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable."

    --  William Somerset
 

"This guy's methodical, exacting, and worst of all, patient."
"He's a nut-bag! Just because the fucker's got a library card doesn't make him Yoda!"

    --  William Somerset and David Mills
 

"C'mon, he's insane. Look. Right now he's probably dancing around in his grandma's panties, yeah, rubbing himself in peanut butter."

    --  David Mills

"Ernest Hemingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part."

    --  William Somerset
 

"If we catch John Doe and he turns out to be the devil, I mean if he's Satan himself, that might live up to our expectations, but he's not the devil. He's just a man."

    --  William Somerset
 

"On the subway today, a man came up to me to start a conversation. He made small talk, a lonely man talking about the weather and other things. I tried to be pleasant and accommodating, but my head hurt from his banality. I almost didn't notice it had happened, but I suddenly threw up all over him. He was not pleased, and I couldn't stop laughing."

    --  William Somerset (from John Doe's journal)
 

"If John Doe's head splits open and a UFO should fly out, I want you to have expected it."

    --  William Somerset
 

"I just don't think I can continue to live in a place that embraces and nurtures apathy as if it was virtue."
"You're no different. You're no better."
"I didn't say I was different or better. I'm not. Hell, I sympathize; I sympathize completely. Apathy is the solution. I mean, it's easier to lose yourself in drugs than it is to cope with life. It's easier to steal what you want than it is to earn it. It's easier to beat a child than it is to raise it. Hell, love costs: it takes effort and work."

    --  William Somerset and David Mills
 

"He's experienced about as much pain and suffering as anyone I've encountered, give or take, and he still has Hell to look forward to."

    --  Dr. Beardsley
 

"You do the talking. Put that silver tongue of yours to work."
"Have you been talking to my wife?"

    --  William Somerset and David Mills
 

"Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention."

    --  John Doe
 

"You're no messiah. You're a movie of the week. You're a fucking t-shirt, at best."

    --  David Mills
 

"I've been trying to figure something in my head, and maybe you can help me out, yeah? When a person is insane, as you clearly are, do you know that you're insane? Maybe you're just sitting around, reading 'Guns and Ammo', masturbating in your own feces, do you just stop and go, 'Wow! It is amazing how fucking crazy I really am!'? Yeah. Do you guys do that?"

    --  David Mills
 

"It's more comfortable for you to label me as insane."
"It's very comfortable."

    --  John Doe and David Mills
 

"Wait a minute... I thought all you did was kill innocent people."
"Innocent?  Is that supposed to be funny?"

    --  David Mills and John Doe

"Realize detective, the only reason that I'm here right now is that I wanted to be."
"No, no, we would have got you eventually."
"Oh really? So, what were you doing? Biding your time? Toying with me? Allowing five innocent people to die until you felt like springing your trap? Tell me, what was the indisputable evidence you were going to use on me right before I walked up to you and put my hands in the air?"

    --  John Doe and David Mills
 

"We see a deadly sin on every street corner, in every home, and we tolerate it. We tolerate it because it's common, it's trivial. We tolerate it morning, noon, and night. Well, not anymore. I'm setting the example. And what I've done is going to be puzzled over, and studied, and followed... forever."

    --  John Doe
 

"I seem to remember breaking down your door."
"Yes. And I seem to remember breaking your face."

    --  David Mills and John Doe
 

"This isn't going to have a happy ending."

    --  William Somerset
 

"What do you got?"
"Dead dog."
"I didn't do that."

    --  David Mills, William Somerset and John Doe


"What's in the box?"

    --  David Mills
 

"It seems that envy is my sin."

    --  John Doe