Daily Dialogue — January 10, 2011

“Time rules over us without mercy. Not caring if we’re healthy or ill. Hungry or drunk. Russian, American, beings from Mars. It’s like a fire, it could either destroy us or it could keep us warm…we live or we die by the clock. We never turn our back on it and we never ever allow ourselves the sin of losing track of time.”

 — Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks), Cast Away (2000), written by William Broyles Jr.

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is philosophy of life. 

Trivia: Actual lines of dialogue were written for Wilson the Volleyball, to help Hanks have a more natural interaction with the inanimate object.