Alfred Borden: "You went half way around the world, you spent a fortune, you did terrible things - really terrible things, Robert, and all for nothing."
Robert Angier: "For nothing?"
Alfred Borden: "Yeah!"
Robert Angier: "You never understood why we did this. The audience knows the truth: the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you... then you got to see something really special. You really don't know? It was... it was the look on their faces..."