David [John Cusack a.k.a. The Man] is talking to Dennis, the kid he adopted who claims to be from Mars and is having a hard time adjusting to life on Earth:
Dennis, can I just say one last thing about Mars? This may be strange coming from a Science-Fiction writer, but...:
Right now, you and me here, put together entirely from atoms, sitting on this round rock with a core of liquid iron held down by this force of this trouble you call gravity, all the while spinning around the sun at 67 thousand miles an hour and whizzing through the Milky Way at 600 thousand miles an hour in a universe that very well may be chasing its own tail at the speed of light. And amidst all this frantic activity, fully cognizant of our own imminent demise (which is a very pretty way of saying we all know we're going to die), we reach out to one another; sometimes for the sake of vanity, sometimes for reasons you're not old enough to understand yet...but a lot of the time we just reach out...and expect nothing in return.
Isn't that strange? Isn't that weird? .. Isn't that weird enough? The heck do ya need to be from Mars for?!
The film is full of good quotes, but this one sticks.
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