- Walter Pedak: Eddie, there's so much money in this world, there's so much money, and so many different ways to get it!
- Eddie Pedak: Stealing.
- Walter Pedak: Yeah, stealing! Everybody in this whole stinking world is a thief: the press, the priest, the whole public! Eddie, you know the one thing we have in common with the kings and the lions of the whole world - we're all thieves.
- Inspector Mike Vido SFPD: Knock off the goofball talk, Pedak. Speak Gringo.
- Eddie Pedak: Alright. How can you justify this one? Planning on losing me another job, is that it?
- Inspector Mike Vido SFPD: No. No, this time it's different. This time I'm going to shove you into the gas chamber.
- Eddie Pedak: When I was a kid in Trieste, I used to go out on the boats and I liked it. I want to go out there and watch the land disappear. Be free! And when I come back home, with the land coming back to me, I'll be clean!
- Kristine Pedak: Then we can move out of that dump we're in and get a new place.
- Eddie Pedak: Trying to tame me?
- Kristine Pedak: You? Man I need a chair and a *long* whip. No, I want you the way you are. Wild!
- Inspector Mike Vido SFPD: You're place is a shootin' gallery, isn't it?
- Luke: If they want a shoot a bit, that's their bag, not mine. I'm clean. Check my lines. Just boo, grass, juice, straight, you know.
- Inspector Mike Vido SFPD: Well, what about your legs.
- Luke: Well, what about 'em?
- Inspector Mike Vido SFPD: They got hits. Your pins look like IBM cards. You haven't got a vein in your frame.
- Unemployed Man: You think we got troubles. Look at this poor dude. He'll get the chair. Yeah, he killed some woman. Did you read the story? Yeah, I remember it on TV. He'll get the chair, for sure. Because he's a broker, a loser, a nobody. It's guys like him and you and me - we get the chair. Now, the guys that run the game - they only do a couple of years.
- Hipster Woman at Big Al's: There aren't very many real people left. The only real people I know are dead - pushed into nuthouses, lobotomy, junk, suicide or really cooling it - and saying nothing to nobody.
- Drug Dealer: I got a great deal. Amphetamine. Cap. Crystals. Anything you want. No? Keep your trip. You don't need nothin'. I might see you later.
- Cleveland 'Cleve' Shoenstein: It's there! The end of the rainbow. Long cars and beautiful women.
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- James Arthur Sargatanas, Walter's Henchman: I don't dig women.
- Luke's Girl: Dolly and Patty have nothing to do with thee and me.
- Luke: I don't - I don't want to hear anymore about them dykes.