QUOTE : HANNAH: You had a vision.<br /><br />PRIOR: A vision. Thank you, Maria Ouspenskaya. I'm not so far gone I can be assuaged by pity and lies.<br /><br />HANNAH: I don't have pity. It's just not something I have.<br />(Little pause)<br />One hundred and seventy years ago, which is recent, an angel of God appeared to Joseph Smith in upstate<br />New York, not far from here. People have visions.<br /><br />PRIOR: But that's preposterous, that's...<br /><br />HANNAH: It's not polite to call other people's beliefs preposterous.<br /><br />He had great need of understanding. Our Prophet. His desire made prayer. His prayer made an angel. The angel was real. I believe that.<br /><br />PRIOR: I don't. And I'm sorry but it's repellent to me. So much of what you believe.<br /><br />HANNAH: What do I believe?<br /><br />PRIOR: I'm a homosexual. With AIDS. I can just imagine what you ...<br /><br />HANNAH: No you can't. Imagine. The things in my head.<br /><br />You don't make assumptions about me, mister; I won't make them about you.