"[to the Turkish court] I just wish for once that you could be in my shoes, Mr. Prosecutor, and then you would know something that you don't know: mercy! That the concept of a society is based on the quality of that mercy; its sense of fair play; its sense of justice! But I guess that's like asking a bear to shit in the toilet. [In the red border clamshell VHS, He says: But I guess that's like asking a bear to use a potty trainer.]"

"Ahmet: Where are you going? Why don't you walk the wheel with us? What is the matter my American friend? What has upset you? Oh! I know. The bad machine doesn't know that he's a bad machine. You still don't believe it. You still don't believe you're a bad machine? To know yourself is to know God, my friend. The factory knows, that's why they put you here. You'll see... You'll find out... In time, you'll know."

"[to the Turkish court] For a nation of pigs, it sure is funny you don't eat'em! Jesus Christ forgave the bastards, but I can't! I hate! I hate you! I hate your nation! And I hate your people! And I fuck your sons and daughters because they're pigs! [Red border clamshell VHS: And I hate your sons and daughters because they're pigs!] You're a pig! You're all pigs."

"Irene Miracle - Susan"

"Dear Susan: Poor Jimmy was caught and beaten so badly he got a severe hernia, and lost a testicle. He's been in the sanitarium for months. In comparison, my problems seem very small."

"Yashaw Adem - the Airport police chief"

"Bo Hopkins - "Tex""

"Michael Yannatos - Court translator"

"Peter Jeffrey - Ahmet"

"Michael Ensign - Stanley Daniels"

"Gigi Ballista - the Judge"

"Mike Kellin - Mr. Hayes"

"What is a crime? What is punishment? It seems to vary from time to time and place to place. What's legal today is suddenly illegal tomorrow because society says it's so, and what's illegal yesterday is suddenly legal because everybody's doin' it, and you can't put everybody in jail. I'm not saying this is right or wrong. I'm just saying that's the way it is. But I've spent 3 1/2 years of my life in your prison, and I think I've paid for my error, and if it's your decision today to sentence me to more years, then I... [he becomes overcome with anger]"

"Franco Diogene - Yesil"

""C'est la vie" — Que se-fucking sera sera."

"She came along the alley and up the back steps the way she always used to. Doc hadn't seen her for over a year. Nobody had. Back then it was always sandals, bottom half of a flower-print bikini, faded Country Joe & the Fish t-shirt. Tonight she was all in flatland gear, hair a lot shorter than he remembered, looking just like she swore she'd never look."

"Back when they were together she could go weeks without anything more complicated than a pout. Now she was laying some heavy combination of face ingredients on Doc that he couldn't read at all."

"Doc ran through all the things he hadn't asked Shasta. Like how much she'd come to depend on Wolfmann's guaranteed level of ease and power? And least askable of all, how passionately did she really feel about old Mickey? Doc knew the likely reply, "I love him", what else? With the unspoken footnote that the word these days was being way too overused."

"Sam Jaeger - Agent Flatweed"

"Timothy Simons - Agent Borderline"

"Andrew Simpson - Riggs Warbling"

"Jefferson Mays - Dr. Threeply"

"Serena Scott Thomas - Sloane Wolfmann"

"Yvette Yates - Luz"

"Keith Jardine - Puck Beaverton"

"Peter McRobbie - Adrian Prussia"

"Michelle Sinclair - Clancy Charlock"

"Michael K. Williams - Tariq Khalil"

"Martin Short - Dr. Rudy Blatnoyd"

"Sasha Pieterse - Japonica Fenway"

"Maya Rudolph - Petunia Leeway"

"Jordan Christian Hearn - Denis"

"Hong Chau - Jade"

"Jeannie Berlin - Aunt Reet"

"Martin Donovan - Crocker Fenway"

""Inherent vice" in a maritime insurance policy is anything that you can't avoid. Eggs break, chocolate melts, glass shatters, and Doc wondered what that meant when it applied to ex-old-ladies"

"Eric Roberts - Michael Z. "Mickey" Wolfmann"

"Joanna Newsom - Sortilège"

"Joaquin Phoenix - Larry "Doc" Sportello"

"Josh Brolin - Det. Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen"

"Owen Wilson - Coy Harlingen"

"Denis: Like Godzilla says to Mothra man, let's go eat some place."

"Was it possible that at every gathering, concert, peace rally, love-in, be-in, freak-in, here up north, back east, where ever, some dark crews had been busy all along reclaiming the music, the resistance to power, the sexual desire from epic to everyday? All they could sweep up for the ancient forces of greed and fear? Gee he thought... I don't know."

"[about the police station] On principle he tried to spend as little time around the glass house as possible. All this strange alternative cop history and cop politics, cop dynasties, cop heroes and evil doers, saintly cops and psycho cops, cops too stupid to live and cops too smart for their own good, insulated by secret loyalties and codes of silence from the world they'd all been given the control."

"Katherine Waterston - Shasta Fay Hepworth"

"Well Mornin' Sam, like a bad luck planet in today's horoscope, here's the old hippie-hating mad dog himself in the flesh: Lieutenant Detective Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen. SAG member, John Wayne walk, flat top of Flintstone proportions and that evil, little shit-twinkle in his eye that says Civil Rights Violations."

"Reese Witherspoon - Deputy D.A. Penny Kimball"

"Benicio del Toro - Sauncho Smilax, Esq."

"Jena Malone - Hope Harlingen"