“Hearts and Minds” quotes from Lost

Jack

How're you doing?

Charlie

How am I doing? With week two of heroin withdrawal? Or how am I doing with Claire being abducted by the freak who tried to kill me?

Jack

I gave you aspirin for the heroin withdrawal.

Locke

Hi.

Sayid

I didn't hear you.

Locke

Sorry. I'm sneakier than I give myself credit for.

Hurley

[to Jin] Are you sure you don't speak English? There's a rumor that you do... Your wife's hot!

Jack

What do you think his story is?

Charlie

Who, Locke? Guy's a freak of nature. Highly disturbed. Chances are he probably killed all his mates at the post office the day his mum forgot to put a cookie in this lunch tin. That was my first impression anyway. Then he saved my life.

Jack

Then you trust him?

Charlie

Trust him? No offense, mate, but if there was one person on this island that I would put my absolute faith in to save us all, it would be John Locke.

Boone Carlyle

So, not to be too difficult, but we've been coming here for two days just staring at this thing. I'm not really sure what we're supposed to be doing.

John Locke

Ludovico Buonarrati, Michelangelo's father. He was a wealthy man. He had no understanding of the divinity in his son, so he beat him. No child of his was going to use his hands for a living. So, Michelangelo learned not to use his hands. Years later a visiting prince came into Michelangelo's studio and found the master staring at a single 18 foot block of marble. Then he knew that the rumors were true -- that Michelangelo had come in everyday for the last four months, stared at the marble, and gone home for his supper. So the prince asked the obvious -- what are you doing? And Michelangelo turned around and looked at him, and whispered, sto lavorando, I'm working. Three years later that block of marble was the statue of David.

Boone Carlyle

We're not going to stare at this for 4 months, are we?