K-PAX 2001 quotes

Stay here — and be prepared — for anything.

Mark Powell

If it's such a terrible experience, how do you reproduce?

Prot

As carefully as possible.

Mark Powell

What happened in there? I mean...he could be a savant. There are savants who've painted flawless copies of Rembrandts who couldn't remember their own names! You don't believe him, Steve?

Steve

I don't know what I believe, Mark...but I know what I saw.

Mark Powell

Where the hell have you been?

Prot

Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland… Labrador…

Howie

You never gave me my last task. What's my last task?

Prot

To stay here — and be prepared — for anything.

Mark Powell

You have no laws?

Prot

No laws. No lawyers.

Mark Powell

How do you know right from wrong?

Prot

Every being in the universe knows right from wrong, Mark.

Prot

Every being in the universe knows right from wrong, Mark.

Prot

For your information: All beings have the capacity to cure themselves, Mark. This is something we've known on K-PAX for millions of years.

Mark Powell

He's the most convincing delusional I've ever come across.

Prot

I have arrived. My travels are over for the time being.

I know... You're the bluebird.

Prot

I travel light. That's a joke, Mark. You humans — there's just no sense of humor.

Prot

Let me tell you something, Mark. You humans, most of you, subscribe to this policy of an eye for an eye, a life for a life, which is known throughout the universe for its stupidity. Even your Buddha and your Christ had quite a different vision; but nobody's paid much attention to them, not even the Buddhists or the Christians.

Patients do not escape from this institution. They don't escape. I'm going to have a great time explaining this to the state board. I've got psychotics on the fourth floor packing up their sneakers because they all think they're going off to K-PAX. Find him.

prot told me to find the Bluebird of Happiness… Its a task. The first of three.

Quiet type. As I recall he was a real smart fellow… a brain. Strong as a horse though — and worked as a knocker.

Prot

Something happened. That's why he called me. He calls me when something bad happens.

Prot

What Einstein actually said was that nothing can accelerate to the speed of light because its mass would become infinite. Einstein said nothing about entities already traveling at the speed of light or faster.

Mark Powell

Whenever you're ready, I'll be waiting.

Prot

Why is a soap bubble round? Because it is the most energy efficient configuration. Similarly, on your planet I look like you; on K-PAX I look like a K-Paxian.