"Did you hear about my wife? She married my attorney. Or, else, he married her. Although, actually, it doesn't really matter. I mean, it all works out to the same thing. Don't you think?"

"Do you realize that the first man who carved a wheel out of stone used it as an ornament?"

"Hey you bastards, I'm still here."

"It's up to you. You're worth just as much dead as you are alive. The rule here is total silence. We make no pretense of rehabilitation here. We're not priests, we're processors. A meatpacker processes live animals into edible ones. We process dangerous men into harmless ones. This we accomplish by breaking you. Breaking you physically, spiritually, and here. Strange things happen to the head here. Put all hope out of your mind... and masturbate as little as possible. It drains the strength."

"Your five years in solitary confinement are at an end. You've paid part of your debt to France."

"Papillon made it to freedom. And for the remaining years of his life, he lived a free man. This, the infamous penal system in French Guiana, did not survive him."

"Toussaint: We do a lot of smuggling here. We raid the mainland. We steal boats. When an outsider comes in we generally kill him, as a security measure. Papillon: That makes sense. Toussaint: Well... a man of Christian understanding."

"Clusiot: You're Louis Dega. I'm Clusiot. How come you ended up in a place like this? Dega: Favoritism."

"A temptation resisted is a true measure of character."

"Darkness does wonders for a bad memory."

"Blame is for God and small children."

"If you're going to catch leprosy, it's better to catch it from money than from people."

"We're really something, aren't we? The only animals that shove things up their ass for survival."

"If I stay – here in this place – I will die!"

"Me they can kill... You they own!"

"Make the best of what we offer you, and you will suffer less than you deserve."

"Garland McKinney - Mr. Pritchard"

"Marshall Edwards - The Preacher"

"Bill Dunbar - Mr. Kyle"

"Jill Clark - Alice"

"Stewart Petersen - Billy Coleman"

"James Whitmore - Grandpa"

"Beverly Garland - Mama Coleman"

"Jack Ging - Papa Coleman"

"A Boy's Greatest Adventure Begins..."

"He Made a Promise And He Kept It!"

"Jeanna Wilson - Sarah Coleman"

"A True Story of a Boy and His Dogs"

"Lonny Chapman - Sheriff"

"Rex Corley - Rubin Pritchard"

"John Lindsey - Rainie Pritchard"

"Peter Walker as Ezekiel"

"Ellen Bry as an unknown character"

"Feel the Earth drop beneath you (Smithsonian Institution)"

"We first flew in dreams, and the dream of flying has become real. We have extended our limits and seen our world from a new angle, in a way that once would've seemed godlike."

"Go where dreams have wings.(Poster)"

"The heavens are still beyond us."

"Once, the shining sea of the West was limits and boundary. Now, lands-end, there's no longer the end of the line."

"This development of mobility and rapid transport has no parallel in all human history. And the telescoping of time has changed forever, the patterns of our imagination."

"We have come a long way from a time when people gazed enviously upon the birds in-flight. Today, we look upon our planet from afar, and feel a new tenderness for the tiny and fragile Earth. For we know now, that even as we walk upon the ground, we are ever in-flight through the universe. And so, we begin to realize that human destiny has ever been, and always must be, to fly!"

"In our new way West, we will fly in a few hours, over landscapes the pioneers labored months and years to cross."

"[Before ascending, Ezekiel reads a poem to his small crowd]"

"Here on July 4th, in the Year of Our Lord 1831, I am about to take a flight above the ground and earth and into the silent sky!"

"[After ascending] It's magnificence! I wish you can all see it from here!"

"[After showing the first form of aviation, hot-air-balloons] But America is still the domain of the horizontal, and speaks a language of vast distances. To conquer [it], we begin to think of space not as miles of forests and prairie to be crossed, but as time between places. Days. Hours. Minutes. We ally ourselves to speed."

"The traditional community testified to human limits, and its boundaries were in the world of the horizontal. But these swarming clusters of metal and glass seemed monuments to the idea of the vertical. They pushed the sky, as if to uproot themselves and take flight. We can truly see these cities only with that other eye we opened Wright Flyer|not so long ago."

"Watch the Earth drop beneath you (2016 40th-anniversary revision)"

"The land and sky in motion, nature at its best, its biggest, its most unforgettable. (LaserDisc back cover)"