- David Henninger: The world is a dreadful place, my father used to say. And the best you can do is make fun of it.
- David Henninger: Wealthy men collect a lot of stupid bullshit.
- Anouar: The renovation of a single bathroom can keep a Saharan village alive for a year. The desert is what we fish, and the fossils are our fish.
- Anouar: It is a joke. God has played a joke on us.
- Richard Galloway: What do you think, Hamid?
- Hamid: The tongue has no bones, Sir, but it crushes all the same.
- Anouar: You think I like to live in this furnace? You think I like the camels, the palm trees... and the 104 degrees every morning? Huh? No, not at all. I dream of Sweden most of the time.
- David Henninger: Sweden?