- The Devil: These microbes never cease to amaze me. An orgy of pain and suffering in such a little tiny package. You really have to give that old bitch Mother Nature a lot of credit.
- Ezekiel Stone: Mother Nature? What the hell she's got to do with this? Pain and suffering's your domain, isn't it?
- The Devil: Please, Ezekiel. My job's not to decide who lives and dies. My business is with the soul. And I have never damned a soul who didn't thoroughly deserve it. Mother Nature is a completely different story. She kills indiscriminately, good and evil alike. Why she gets all the good press, I'll never know.
- The Devil: So, Ezekiel, how did it feel? A pariah, shunned and hated by your fellow men?
- Ezekiel Stone: Kinda reminded me of you.
- [the Devil laughs]
- Ezekiel Stone: Yeah, run out of heaven on a rail. I bet it still hurts, doesn't it?
- [the Devil stops laughing, and vanishes]