JOE: In our country, you're free and so you're born and 
so they say, "You're free," so happy birthday. And even 
if you were born to lose--even if you were a complete 
wreck when you were born--you might still grow up to be 
president ... because you're free.

GERALDINE: Today, you might be an average citizen ... a 
civilian ... a pedestrian ... But tomorrow you might be 
elected to some unexpected office--or sell your novel 
and suddenly become famous. Or you could get run over 
by a truck and your picture could get into the papers 
_that_ way. Because you're free and anything might 
happen ... so happy birthday.

JOE: Gee! All those lights and all those screens! The 
New York Experience is mind-boggling. I don't think 
I've ever seen that many screens and I'll probably come 
again ... It was really amazing, mind-boggling.

GERALDINE: You're walking and you don't always realize 
it but you're always falling at the same time. With 
each step you fall forward. Over and over, you're 
falling and then catching yourself from falling ... And 
this is how you can be walking and falling at the same 
time.

JOE: Look! Over there! It's a real dog ... and it's 
really talking

GERALDINE: I wanted you and I was looking for you ... 
but I couldn't find you. I wanted you and I was looking 
for you all day ... but I couldn't find you.

JOE: Well, I paid my money, and I've got this funny 
money for. I mean I _paid_ my money and I just don't 
think this is what I paid my money--you know--what I 
paid my money for.

GERALDINE: No one has ever looked at me like this 
before ... no one has ever _stared_ at me for so long 
like this ... This is the first time anyone has ever 
looked at me like this ... stared at me like this for 
such a long time ... for so long.

JOE: Well, he didn't know what to do so he just decided 
to watch the government and see what the government was 
doing and then kind of scale it down to size--and run 
his life that way.

GERALDINE: She said the hardest thing to teach her 
three-year-old kid was what was alive and what wasn't. 
The phone rings and she holds it out to her kid and 
says, "It's Grandma. Talk to Grandma." But she's 
holding a piece of plastic. And the kid says to 
herself: "Wait a minute. Is the phone alive? Is the TV 
alive? What about that radio? What is alive in this 
room and what doesn't have life?" Unfortunately, she 
doesn't know how to ask these questions.

JOE: We were in a large room. Full of people. All 
kinds. And they had arrived at the same time. And they 
were all free and they were all asking themselves the 
same question: What is behind that curtain? They were 
all free. And they were all wondering what would happen 
next.

GERALDINE: This is the time and this is the record of 
the time.