- Mike Bennett: Gee, trains are wonderful, especially at night. They're like big, long snakes with lighted skins. And they whistle and smoke and rattle. Boy, they're somethin'.
- Harold Dunlap: There's no sense in scaring the boy.
- Ruth Bennett: He should be scared. I'm scared with him alone heaven knows where. If scaring will scare him, he should be scared.
- Harold Dunlap: I'll give him a good talkin-to, just like a big brother.
- Ruth Bennett: Make sure you scare him.
- Dr. Valonius: He was a man trying to lead a simple, happy life. He found out life was neither simple nor happy.