- Maurice Conchis: All men feel the need to risk death at least once in their life. War is a very unscientific answer to that need.
- [Nicholas hands a book to Conchis]
- Nicholas Urfe: I came to return this.
- Maurice Conchis: You came here to meet me. Please, life is short. My name is Conchis.
- Nicholas Urfe: My name is Urfe. From the school. I find life long.
- Nicholas Urfe: This thing, it's like being halfway through a book. You can't just throw it in the dustbin.
- Anne: So you throw me instead?
- Nicholas Urfe: I'm trying to be honest.
- Anne: Honest? It's just like in London. You haven't changed. I'll always be that French girl who slept around. A human boomerang. Throw her away and she'll always come back for another week of duty-free sex.
- Nicholas Urfe: That's below the belt!
- Anne: Your natural territory.
- Maurice Conchis: [to Nicholas] Now, I will show you something. The ultimate reality. Not the hammer and sickle, not the stars and stripes, not lysergic acid, not the sun, not gold, not yin and yang. But
- [reveals smile statue]
- Maurice Conchis: The Smile.
- Nicholas Urfe: You know what's wrong with marriage, Meli? It kills the fun in life.
- [bites affair liaison apple]
- Nicholas Urfe: It's the timid little people who can't gamble; who always want to know where they are. It's for mice, Meli, not for men.
- Nicholas Urfe: I've missed you.
- Anne: Careful. You'll be in love next.
- Nicholas Urfe: I never use four-letter words.
- Anne: You're running away. That's all it is.
- Nicholas Urfe: Look, in this country I am the typical nowhere man - belonging nowhere, going nowhere and wanted nowhere.
- Anne: Oh, Nicko, this is life, not an existentialist novel.
- Meli: [splashed by boy in pool] Ah, I think when I marry I shall pray for daughters. And You?
- Nicholas Urfe: I'll just pray for myself.
- Maurice Conchis: [after describing Nazi atrocity] What would you have done?
- Nicholas Urfe: God Knows.
- Maurice Conchis: God never has to choose. You and I do.