"To cleave that sea in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to…"

"You turn the wheel and the mud whirls round, as if you were possessed while you stand over it and say "I'm going to m…"

"What kind of a man are you? Don't you even like dolphins!?"

"The maimed don't get into Paradise."

"A man's a savage beast when he's young; yes, boss, a savage, man-eating beast! [...] Oh, he eats sheap too, and hens …"

"Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak. To act as if death did not exist, or to act thinking ever…"

"Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite. That was the face Zorba was seeing and …"

"Man is a brute [...] It seems everything's been too easy for you, but you ask me! A brute, I tell you! If you're crue…"

"Keep your distance, boss! Don't make men too bold, don't go telling them we're all equal, we've got the same rights, …"

"Is it possible to talk by dancing? And yet I dare swear that's how the gods and devils must talk to one another."