- Lloyd Hopkins: [Last lines] Well, there's some good and there's some bad news. The good news is you're right - I'm a cop and I've gotta take you in. The bad news is I've been suspended and I don't give a fuck.
- Lloyd Hopkins: Why can't they fly, Dutch? Why can't they fly like us?
- Dutch Peltz: No wings, my friend. Nothing they do by themselves is much fun, they gotta have a man or it doesn't matter.
- Lloyd Hopkins: Penny's gonna fly. The wings are there, and they're big.
- Dutch Peltz: You better hope the tits are there, and they're big too. She'll get farther in this world with a pair of those.
- Delbert 'Whitey' Haines: I don't know man, I don't know. You can pull that trigger until you blow my head off but I cannot tell you what I don't know.
- Lloyd Hopkins: You piece of shit.
- Lloyd Hopkins: How'd he know the guys were Mexican?
- Detective: They spoke with Mexican accents.
- Lloyd Hopkins: To each other?
- Detective: Um, didn't ask.
- Lloyd Hopkins: There's your first lead.
- Captain Fred Gaffney: Hopkins, I go to church on Sunday and to prayer meetings three times a week, but when I put on my holster, I put God out of my mind.
- Lloyd Hopkins: [Silently reads a note sent to the victim] I took you from your grief. I stole you like a thief. You grieved me more than all the rest. You were the smartest, the kindest, the worst, the best...
- Lloyd Hopkins: What's your name?
- Joanie Pratt: Joanie Pratt, age 35, former actress, model, singer and dancer, and what usually follows.
- Lloyd Hopkins: And what do you do now?
- Joanie Pratt: What usually follows.
- Lloyd Hopkins: Which is?
- Joanie Pratt: Can't we talk somewhere else?
- Lloyd Hopkins: What's wrong with here? I'm trying to spare you the police station so tell me what do you do now?
- Joanie Pratt: I deal Quaaludes and I fuck selected older men who don't wanna get involved.