- Vera Brownmiller: Come on. Well, don't just stand there. You can come in, you know. Oh - and - like these walls are paper thin, so we got to keep it down. Billy tell you how much? 20 for quickies, 50 all night. Oh, alright, if you can't afford it, I'll give you a break. 40. Okay?
- Lt. Bill Bowen: It's been two years since your sister died of an overdose. Now what are you gonna do? Make a career out of musclin' these two-bit pushers in this ghetto? You turn one in and five more hit the street.
- Shep Stone: Get your goddamn feet off my "Chippendale".
- Lt. Bill Bowen: Jesus. What a dump. And you - a college man.
- Lt. Bill Bowen: What did his face look like?
- Shep Stone: His face? I was too busy tryin' to save my ass, baby. He had a cane *and* a pig-sticker. That's where all my attention was. Everything else was a red haze.
- Moms: She still lives on in living color.
- Shep Stone: What do you mean by that?
- Moms: Oh shit, man, she used to moonlight for old Max Majors, makin' all them pussy pictures. We have one playin' around the corner now.
- Shep Stone: Practically - and philosophically, I'm for law and order. But, technically, it stinks. After I catch some bastard and have to read him his Bill of Rights, after me and God knows how many others saw him cut down some poor old grocer and get off with spit - uh-uh - something's wrong.
- Chess: You better have a hundred yards by tomorrow - or you've got shit! I'm callin' the shots now, baby!
- Miss Francis: [sucking her thumb, removes it] I can sometimes be more of a woman than Cyn-Cyn, whether you believe it or not.
- Shep Stone: Yeah, you are temptin'.
- Miss Francis: And, frankly, Cynthia *likes* women. Mr. Stone, I happen to be a lot of woman.
- Shep Stone: You're a foxy lady, alright.
- Miss Francis: Mr. Stone, so we meet formally.
- Shep Stone: Well, I figured it was about time since we're both screwing the same chick.
- Miss Francis: I was under the impression that you were a man of - uh - some culture.
- Shep Stone: Look, lady, I don't care what you do or what you do it with. You just leave Cynthia alone.
- Rev. Avery: We all know how the devil finds his way into our hearts, always mischiefing when we least expect him. He strikes at the heart where *Jesus* lives because it is most vulnerable. It's the House of Love.
- Shep Stone: How much can you afford to pay? I work on daily rates and expenses. I'm cheap, but I'm mean when it's too cheap.
- Rev. Avery: Well, Mr. Stone, don't tell me you've got religion.
- Shep Stone: I've got my own trip.
- Rev. Avery: And what might that be?
- Shep Stone: Almost any bourbon.
- Shep Stone: I'm looking for a girl named Amy Dole. She could be a hophead, 'cause I traced her here.
- Rev. Avery: We don't keep dope addicts. We save them.
- Shep Stone: Yeah? Well, I passed a few benny poppers out there.
- Shep Stone: I'm thinkin' a lot of grass gets passed in here. Maybe a little hard stuff too. I figure some night I come in here and I put my hand under the table and find myself a bag.
- Lindy: Don's a con, but maybe I'm the cat who knows where it's at.
- Lindy: Hey, brother, no charge for the coffee... But, since you're here, I'd like you to stay for dinner on pig butts and black-eyed peas for only $1.75. Can't beat it no place else in the world.
- Shep Stone: You jivin'.
- Lindy: No, I ain't.
- Shep Stone: Soul food?
- Lindy: Yes, suh.
- Shep Stone: Pig butts?
- Lindy: Go on, bro.
- Shep Stone: You got a liquor license?
- Lindy: Hey, no, man, just beer.
- Shep Stone: Well, just throw me somethin' to read while I'm waitin', brother.
- Lindy: Alright, brother.
- Shep Stone: Soul food!
- Lindy: Yes, indeed.
- Shep Stone: Alright, quit jivin', Lindy. Now, either tell me what I want to know or tell me to get out, but can that super spade bull shit.
- Lindy: Well, a boy with a ploy, huh?
- Shep Stone: No, a man with a plan.
- Talbot: Vera was not only my friend, but we had a great spiritual bond. She was my medium on many an occasion. A Scorpio on the cusp of Sagittarius.
- Shep Stone: What does that mean?
- Talbot: That she had great vibrations for the dead.
- Worm: You know I don't like to be called Worm. No ex-Pig's gonna call me Worm, Stone!
- Shep Stone: Look - Mr. Worm, now this ex-Pig is gettin' pissed
- Cynthia: Pretty terrific, huh? The flare and the flounce. Kind of sexy, don't you think?
- Shep Stone: Looks like plain old blue jeans to me.
- Cynthia: Blue Jeans? Shep, where have you been? Denim - just happens to be *the* greatest thing since the new look. Honey, the whole world's wearing blue denim. You know, they're even doing cars in 'em. Studded and - embroidered, lined in funky chintz.
- Shep Stone: The thought of your - lesbian relationship sort of got to me.
- Cynthia: I am *not* a lesbian. It just so happens that somebody I find very interesting and have a great deal in common with happens to be a woman.
- Shep Stone: For Christ sake, Cynthia, I know a lot of girls who have girlfriends, but they don't hop in the sack with them.
- Cynthia: Stone, I'm me. I haven't changed. I'm the same me you've been making love to for the last three months.
- Shep Stone: Maybe it's me that's changed then.
- Shep Stone: You're much more than a smart woman.
- Miss Francis: That isn't very sweet, but it is sincere.
- Diane Davis: How exciting! Any new dangerous capers lately? You must tell me about it, Shep. Please, Shep.
- [grabs Stone's arm]
- Miss Francis: Oh no, you don't. I'm going to get Stone a drink. He's mine.
- Miss Francis: Are we boring you, Stone?
- Shep Stone: How could you possibly be a bore, Miss Francis?
- Miss Francis: Touché.
- Miss Francis: I don't know what your bag is, but they're showing - movies upstairs.
- Shep Stone: What about you?
- Miss Francis: As far as I'm concerned, that's for Pygmies. I don't have that problem
- Shep Stone: Which one of these is your husband?
- Miss Francis: He's upstairs.
- Amy: They saw the light, but wouldn't believe, man. Their pride and their ego wouldn't accept him. And if you believe and don't accept him, you are as unhip as they are and you are damned!
- Dole: You've brainwashed her. That's not the girl I brought up. You've done something to her.
- Rev. Avery: Of course I have, Mr. Dole. I gave her Jesus.
- Dole: Why you son of a bitch!
- Rev. Avery: You see, Stone, we take these kids hooked on drugs and worse. We give them a home, a faith, something stronger than drugs, violence, and fornication.
- Amy: Do you believe in Jesus at all?
- Woman on the Beach: I'm Jewish!
- Amy: Groovy, so was he.
- Woman on the Beach: That was his problem. I don't have that problem. I'm not even Orthodox.
- Mary: Look! Look around you. This is where it's happening. The devil's out there - he's out there to eat your ass, man.
- Chess: Come on, black boy. Come on. Get up! Get up, black boy! Come on. You want to play? Come on, let's play. Get up, nigger! Come on! Get up!
- Lindy: Yeah, I knew Amy Dole - and I dug her, too. You might say I went through that whole nigger-bag thing, you know, like sweet talk and gifts and doggin' her arm along Central all night. But that was before she met that mutha by the name of Chess. I got a scar, man, where three of them jumped me and near killed me. Said, "Stay away!" I said, "Hey, I'm peace-lovin' revolutionary brother. I ain't got no time for no shit like that." So, I stayed away. I got me a - real old lady now.