Billy: Human emotions are like works of art. They can be forged. They seem just like the original, but they're a forgery.
Virgil Oldman: Forgery?
Billy: Everything can be faked, Virgil. Joy, pain, hate, illness, recovery, even love.


Virgil Oldman: I suppose feeling a certain interest in a person necessarily engenders a conviction that she's beautiful.


Billy: Emotions are like work of art. They can be forged they seem just like the original but they are forgery.