"Fraternizing with the enemy. I had stepped over the edge. The cartoon moment when the gravity waits for the coyote to realize his mistake before the plunge."

"Mona was still the answer. I caught glimpses of her out of the corner of my eye, felt her presence everywhere I went. I was trying to trace her path, recreate the winding course of the magic bullet in her head. I couldn't find her."

"She was dead. The bullet in her head had come to the end of its slow-motion journey."

"I'd found the sniper's hideout. They'd been spying on me for days, weeks, months even. My every action, observed, recorded, analyzed. The place was the proof every paranoiac dreams of."

"I had tried to run from it, edit it out. Winterson was dead. I was a murderer."

"One thing left to do. I was compelled to give Vlad his gun back. One bullet at a time."

"Home is where your heart is … [Cleaner in distance, speaking to other cleaner: "Simple, not like in the movies where the hero has a chance to disarm the bomb."] Once, it would have been a house in the suburbs … [Cleaner in distance, again speaking to other cleaner: "He opens the door, and BOOM!"] Now, nothing was left of it … [The door is opened by a third cleaner and blows all three up, as well as the apartment] I wasn't happy with the way the cleaners were doing their job."

"Behind the door [7th floor of the apartment building] were the suites. They weren't an improvement on the regular apartments."

"Without Mona's help, I'd be a dead man. Suddenly, for the first time in I don't know how long, I realized, I didn't wish to be dead."

"[Over microphone] Vlad, shut up and stay alive, I'm coming."

"Mona, these guys are packing, close to overkill, hardcore professionals."

"I felt the rise of that old familiar feeling. I hated it. I welcomed it."

"[In a dream, in a cell labeled "paranoid"] Wait, just wait, I can figure this out, I can fix this. I can make it better! Just think. Think!"

"It was all connected. The murder of Senator Gate, the Cleaners, the Inner Circle, Vinnie Gognitti. I had to make Winterson see it."

"Vinnie was about to piss his pants, he'd end up short circuiting the bomb and blowing us both up."

"Winterson would have found a way to do this nice, neat and clean. Logic told me backup should be on its way. Somebody must have heard the gunfire. Logic was such a liar."

"Mona's words on her being a "sitting duck" kept playing in my head. The bomb had misdirection written all over it."

"I couldn't crack her. I had to crack the case."

"Sometimes, something good comes out of it. Something you know you wouldn't deserve in a million years."

"You'd have to be a first-degree fool to fall for a woman who returns from the dead only to put a gun to your face."

"She was beautiful. I hated her for making me feel this way."

"Now that I was with her, I was reluctant to hear her answers."

"Your past is like pieces of a broken mirror. You try to pick them up, but you only end up cutting yourself."

"[Final quote] I had a dream of my wife. She was dead. But it was all right."

"It was almost morning, waking up from the American Dream. We are willing to suffer, to die for the things we care about. For love, for the right choices, Because of her, I had solved the case. My case. All of it. Who I am. Is it worth it? Saying that it never is would be a lie. Sometimes you get lucky. Sometimes, something good comes out of it. Something you know you wouldn't deserve in a million years. Something that gives you a reason to go on."

"[To Max] What are you so afraid of? What do you want from me?"

"[Trying to assist Max, to herself] Sometimes, Mona, you gotta go down to get up."

"You're a bastard, Max."

"[To Vlad, having shot him in the arm] See? You're nothing but a one-armed bandit."

"[Final quote] God, I turned out to be such a damsel in distress."

"[Catchphrase] Have no fear, Vlad is here!"

"[catchphrase] (Name of person(s) he is talking to), dearest of all my friends...!"

"Max! 911! Bad guys with big guns!"

"[Over microphone] Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present Max Payne. New York's Finest, with the biggest mobster bodycount ever. Dearest guests, prepare to die … [Assorted gunfire] Max, I'd love to come and welcome you, but I'm busy dodging bullets and hiding under a desk at the moment."

"[Over microphone] Max? Damn it … aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrgghhhhh!"

"Hypothetically, if the only choice you've got is to do the wrong thing, then it's not really the wrong thing, it's more like fate."

"I hate to do this, but you know how you are, you would never let it go!"

"It's better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven."

"[About Mona] I know of her. Her reputation as a hired killer. I hear she is a stone fox. I would fuck her."

"[To Max] Besides, a gentleman always avenges the insults done to his lady. You did kill Winterson. [Shoots Max]"

"Of course, we agree to disagree."

"[Alfred Woden's message machine] I am coming to kill you, old man. You really know how to piss me off, you know? Would it have killed you to say "thank you" for once in your life, to say, "Vlad, my son – can I call you my son, because I sure do love you like one. – Vlad, my son, you are a true prodigy, everything you touch turns to gold." Oh, wait, it is going to kill you. I'm done doing your dirty work for you. You should be proud. I have learned all you've taught me. I'm coming to show you."

"You have wrecked my restaurant twice now. You can be so damn uncompromising, fanatical about these things Max. One of these days, it's going to get you killed!"

"What the fuck is wrong with you, Max?! Why don't you just die?! You hate life, you're miserable all the time, afraid to enjoy yourself even a little. Face it, you might as well be dead already. Do yourself a favor, give up!"

"[Last words] Max … dearest of all my friends … I was supposed to be the hero …"

"[Regarding his collection of Captain Baseball Bat Boy merchandise] What? What, I'm a collector! Do you know how much this stuff is worth? I tell ya', fuckin' much! There's nothin' nerdy about it, I'm a collector! Lots of tough guys are into this stuff! Frankie was into this stuff, he was a fuckin' tough guy! Just you wait till I sell my collection online! We'll see who's the nerd when I'm a millionaire!"