Ed Avery: [of wife Lou] It's a shame that I didn't marry someone who was my intellectual equal.

- James Mason (as Ed Avery) in Bigger Than Life (1956)

Ed Avery: Childhood is a congenital disease - and the purpose of education is to cure it. We're breeding a race of moral midgets.

- James Mason (as Ed Avery) in Bigger Than Life (1956)

Ed Avery: God was wrong!

- James Mason (as Ed Avery) in Bigger Than Life (1956)