The Wizard of Gore

Montag the Magnificent:
Just look at you. Just look at her, folks. In her armor, her shell. Just look at yourselves. Ridiculous. To hide is useless, my little crabs. It is an exercise in futility. What you all are is pulp, when the rind is split wide open.

Montag the Magnificent:
What are you afraid of? Exposure. We swim in a shark-infested cesspool, terrified that at any moment things will nip at us. Oh. Ha ha. They will nip at us, and they are hungry. They are those closest to us, our best friends. Our girlfriends. They are us.

Montag the Magnificent:
What you are, what you all are, is meat. Cattle that will never escape from the herd.

Montag the Magnificent:
Ladies and gentlemen, when you come to my house, you are stripped. This show is about what's on the inside, what is inside you. Is it beautiful? Or is it ugly?

Dr. Chong:
Now here is where you come in. I had a girl, one that left me a week before, a real thoroughbred of a girl, had it in for one of my best clients. This guy put so much money on her, it was like he had her on layaway already, so I cut her loose with my blessing.

Edmund Bigelow:
And her name is Maggie, right?

Dr. Chong:
Merry Christmas, Scoop. From here on, find your own way.

Edmund Bigelow:
We met at church.

Maggie:
That was a joke that I made up on the spot, remember? It's like our lives started that night. And before that, you were just a whore, and I was a bad man. And our lives now are just an illusion.

Montag the Magnificent:
Eyes front. You cannot move. You cannot even know if you are really here. One of magic's many beauties is that the illusion can begin long before the audience even knows it is going to be tricked. Trick. A word with so many meanings. You fake your own reality. You, the things that you believe about yourself. Delusions. The things that you tell yourself. Lies. Are you ready for the truth?

Montag the Magnificent:
Ling Chi: Death by a thousand cuts. I will cut you piece by piece. I will open you up, then you can see I am not the magician. I am the trick. Like you, I am a prop to be used for this final trick. I will let out what the magician added to you, and once you are truly opened up, you can put the pieces together. In this world, there are two kinds of people: fools and visionaries. The fool sees the solution, the magician intends him to see. Which one are you? The fool or the visionary?

Edmund Bigelow:
The visionary. Escaped visionary. Go ahead. Cut me more, because the more you cut, the more I bleed, and the more I bleed, the more you lose your hold on me.

Montag the Magnificent:
That... That was just a means to an end. But you and what you have accomplished, that you have always had within you. The only reason that you haven't seen it is because magic is all about misdirection. But you don't have direction.

Edmund Bigelow:
I think now I do.

Edmund Bigelow:
Now I live backstage. From my spot here, I can make people dance to whatever tune I want them to.When they come to my house, I hold their lives in my hands. They don't have to see me, and I don't have to parade. I know what's inside me, and whenever I want, I can see everything that's inside of them, if you catch my drift. You wonder how in the hell I got to this place. You should be asking, what took me so long.