- Gay: Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dyin's as natural as livin'. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.
- Roslyn: Horse killers! Killers! Murderers! You're liars! All of you, liars! You're only happy when you can see something die! Why don't you kill yourself to be happy? You and your God's country! Freedom! I pity you! You're three dear, sweet, dead men!
- Gay: What makes you so sad? I think you're the saddest girl I ever met.
- Roslyn: You're the first man that ever said that. I'm usually told how happy I am.
- Gay: That's because you make a man feel happy.
- [He tries to kiss her, but she demurs]
- Roslyn: I don't feel that way about you, Gay.
- Gay: Well, don't get discouraged girl, you might.
- [Last lines]
- Roslyn: I'll leave tomorrow, okay?
- Gay: God bless you, girl.
- Roslyn: Gay, if there could be one person in the world, a child who could be brave from the beginning. I was scared to, when you asked me. But, I'm not so much now, are you?
- Gay: No.
- Roslyn: How do you find your way back in the dark?
- Gay: Just head for that big star straight on. The highway's under it. It'll take us right home.
- Guido: Have you ever been outside Reno, Ms. Taber?
- Roslyn: Once I walked to the edge of town; doesn't look like there's much out there.
- Gay: Everything's there!
- Roslyn: Like what?
- Gay: The country!
- Roslyn: Well, what do you do with yourself?
- Gay: Just live.
- Roslyn: How does anyone "just live"?
- Gay: Well, you start by going to sleep. You get up when you feel like it. You scratch yourself. You fry yourself some eggs. You see what kind of a day it is; throw stones at a can, whistle.
- Roslyn: You have to get something to be human? You never felt anything for anybody in your life. All you know is the sad words. You could blow up the world and all you would feel is sorry for yourself!
- Gay: Damn 'em all. They changed it, changed it all around. Smeared it all over with blood. I'm finished with it. It's like roping a dream now. I just gotta find another way to be alive, that's all. If there is one anymore.
- Isabelle Steers: The Leave It state. Ya got money you want to gamble? Leave it here. You got a wife you want to get ride of? Get rid of her here. Extra atom bomb you don't need? Blow it up here. Nobody's gonna mind in the slightest.
- Roslyn: We're all dying aren't we. All the husbands and all the wives. Every minute. And we're not teaching each other what we really know, are we?
- Gay: You know, sometimes when a person don't know what to do, the best thing is to just stand still.
- [Gay is giving Roslyn a ride back to town]
- Gay: You're a - real - beautiful - woman. It's almost kind of an honor sittin' next to ya'. You just shine in my eyes. That's my true feelin' Roslyn.
- Isabelle Steers: I love Nevada. You know, they don't have regular meal times here. Never met so many people didn't own a watch! Might have two wives at the same time, but, no watch. Bless them all.
- Guido: Listen, do you want me to stop this? I know how you feel, Roslyn. I never liked this part myself. Truthfully, the only part I enjoyed is the flying. You want me to stop it?
- Roslyn: You would?
- Guido: You're through with Gay now, right? Well, tell me. He doesn't know what you're all about. He'll never know. Tell me, Roslyn. I been waitin'. I'm goin' out of my mind with waitin'. Come back with me. Give me a week, two weeks. Let me show you what I am. Tell me, Roslyn. Give me a reason and I'll stop it. There'll be hell to pay, but give me a reason and I'll do it.
- Roslyn: A reason? You, a sensitive fellow. So sad for his wife. Crying about the bombs you dropped and the people you killed. You have to get something to be human? You never felt anything for anybody in your life. All you know is the sad words. You could blow up the world, and all you'd feel is sorry for yourself!
- Guido: You have the gift for life, Roslyn. The rest of us, we're just looking for a place to hide and watch it all go by.
- Roslyn: [to Guido, who is driving drunkenly at breakneck speed] Please, Guido! Don't kill us!
- Guido: How do you get to know somebody, kid? I can't make a landing, and I... can't get up to God, either. Help me. I never said "help me" in my life. I don't know anybody. So how do I land, honey? Will you give me a little time? Say yes.
- [Sourly]
- Guido: At least say, "Hello, Guido".
- Roslyn: [Nervously] Yes, Guido. Hello, Guido.
- Guido: [a pause between the two] Hello, Roslyn.
- Gay: Did you ever hear the story about the city man out in the country? And he sees this fella sittin' on his porch. So he says, "Mister, could you tell me how I could get back to town?" The fella says, "No." "Well, could you tell me how to get to the Post Office?" The fella says, "No." "Well, do you know how to get to the Railroad Station?" "No." "Boy," he says, "you sure don't know much, do ya?" The fella says, "No. But I ain't lost."
- Roslyn: Why can't I just say he wasn't there. He - I mean you could touch him, but he wasn't there.
- Isabelle Steers: Darling, girl, if that was grounds for divorce, there'd only be about 11 marriages left in the United States.
- Guido: [drunk] We're all blind bombardiers, Roslyn. We kill people we never even saw. I bombed nine cities. I sure must have broken a lot of dishes, but I never saw them. You think of all the puppy dogs and mail carriers, eyeglasses, must've gone up. Boy, you know droppin' a bomb is like tellin' a lie.
- Roslyn: That star is so far away, that by the time the light from it reaches us here on Earth, it might not even be up there anymore.
- Perce: Boy, you sure know a lot, don't you, pilot?
- Guido: Astronomy is in all the library books, Perce. Nothin' to it but readin'.
- Roslyn: Still, it's wonderful to know things.
- Guido: Knowing things don't matter much. You got somethin' a lot more important.
- Roslyn: What?
- Guido: You care. Whatever happens to anybody, it happens to you. You're really hooked into the whole thing, Roslyn. It's a blessing.
- Roslyn: People say I'm just nervous.
- Gay: We start out doin' somethin', meaning no harm, something that's naturally in us to do. But, somewhere along the line, it gets changed around into something bad! Like dancin' in a nightclub. You started out just wanting to dance, didn't ya? But, little by little it turns out that people ain't interested in how good you danced, they're gawkin' at you with somethin' entirely different in their minds. And they turn it sour, don't they? I coulda looked down my nose at you too. Showin' yourself off at nightclubs for so much a night. But, I took my hat off to ya. Cause I know the difference.
- Guido: She's crazy. They're all crazy. You try not to believe it because you need them. She's crazy. You struggle, you build, you try, you turn yourself inside out for 'em, but its never enough. So they put the spurs to you - I know, I got the marks. I know this racket, I just forgot what I knew for a while.
- Guido: Boy, am I in the right place?
- Roslyn: Have you seen the vegetable garden? It took Gay about a week just to get the soil turned over.
- Gay: Yeah, I moved the grass. Sprayed them flowers too. Oh, I got your windows unstuck. Fireplace don't smoke anymore.
- Guido: Roslyn, you must be a magician. The only thing this boy ever did for a woman was get out the ice cubes.
- Roslyn: You're a mechanic too?
- Isabelle Steers: Him? He's a cowboy!
- Gay: How'd you know?
- Isabelle Steers: I can smell, can't I.
- Gay: Hey, you can't smell cows on me.
- Isabelle Steers: I can smell the look on your face, cowboy. But, I love every miserable one of you. Of course, you're all good for nothin' as you well know.
- Roslyn: What if, someday, you suddenly turn around and you don't like me anymore? Like before, when Perce got hurt, you started to give me a look. I know that look and it scares me, Gay. I couldn't be with strangers anymore.
- Gay: [Drunkenly] Honey, honey, I got a little mad, that's all. That don't mean I didn't like ya. Didn't your Papa ever spank you and then pick you up and give you a big kiss? He did, didn't he?
- Roslyn: He was never there long enough. Strangers spanked me for kicks. Oh, Gay, love me, love me!
- Gay: I can't put on that this is all as bad as you make it. All I know is everything else is wages. I herd these horses to keep myself free. So I'm a free man.
- Gay: Somehow it all got changed around. I'm doin' the same thing I always did. It's just that they changed it around.
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