Higher than the sun! (points finger forward) — Eureka Seven

"Thats something you have to decide. What it is you believe in, and what you decide to do with that belief is all your own responsibility. Its up to you whether to ride the waves or to letem die. That is the motto that all lifters live by, isnt it ?"

"Oh no! Why cant I move the controls? How come? What do I do? Those are missiles! Wait, why wont this move? No way this is happening! Why? Whats going on? No, wait just a minute! This is how my life is gonna end? No way! At 14 its all over? Wait! Wait a minute!"

"Renton: How long had it been since I left Charles place? Seemed like forever. I kept walking for the promise, the promise of getting to see Eureka. But...but now I couldnt get myself to even walk. And I was beginning to lose sight of the reason why I kept on walking. Sis...maybe, maybe I... (collapses)"

"Dominic: Looks like we both fell for troublesome ladies. So Renton? Renton: Huh, how do you know my name? Dominic: Dominic. Im Dominic Sorel."

"Renton: Grandpa, Im sorry. Until now, I think Ive been running away. Axel: Away from what? Renton: From things that I have to do and things I thought were weighing me down. So, Im gonna stop running away now. Im gonna stop. Im not gonna run anymorw. Im gonna go get some training. I wanna train so that some day I can become a mechanic just like you, Grandpa. Axel: Good, youve come to your senses. Itll be tough. Renton: I know, but itll be alright. and thats because Im your grandson. Axel: (crying) Idiot. Its not nice to make an old man cry. (walks away) Renton: (with tears in eyes) Grandpa."

"Eureka: (raises hand) Like this. You just raise your hand up towards the sky. Now you try it. Renton: Huh? Eureka: Hurry! Renton: Um, okay. (raises hand) Hey, can you really read the waves just by doing this? Eureka: Stay quiet. Renton: Oh, sorry. (stares at Eurekas lips and blushes)"

"Gentlemen, no fighting please. This is, after all, a council of war. (p. 26)"

"I should say that when people talk about capitalism its a bit of a joke. Theres no such thing. No country, no business class, has ever been willing to subject itself to the free market, free market discipline. Free markets are for others. Like, the Third World is the Third World because they had free markets rammed down their throat. Meanwhile, the enlightened states, England, the United States, others, resorted to massive state intervention to protect private power, and still do. Thats right up to the present. I mean, the Reagan administration for example was the most protectionist in post-war American history. Virtually the entire dynamic economy in the United States is based crucially on state initiative and intervention: computers, the internet, telecommunication, automation, pharmaceutical, you just name it. Run through it, and you find massive ripoffs of the public, meaning, a system in which under one guise or another the public pays the costs and takes the risks, and profit is privatized. Thats very remote from a free market. Free market is like what India had to suffer for a couple hundred years, and most of the rest of the Third World."

"The Dwarf sees farther than the Giant, when he has the Giants shoulders to mount on."

"If civilization has an opposite, it is war."

"A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all. (23)"

"I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of man certainly interest me deeply, but I am less concerned with expressing the motions of the soul and mind than to render visible, so to speak, the inner flashes of intuition which have something divine in their apparent insignificance and reveal magic, even divine horizons, when they are transposed into the marvellous effects of pure plastic art."