- Capt. Barney Miller: Here you are Mr. Jeffers,
- Charlie Evans Jeffers: Thank you Captain
- Capt. Barney Miller: You know, it's hard for me to understand how an intelligent man like you could allow himself to be parley to so much trouble
- Charlie Evans Jeffers: Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men
- Det. Ron Harris: This cat is dynamite... I'm gonna write that down
- Capt. Barney Miller: It appears you found yourself an admirer.
- Charlie Evans Jeffers: Do me a favor, don't tell him it comes from Aldous Huxley until l after I leave
- Capt. Barney Miller: You know, it seems to me that if you just stayed put all this time, you could avoid all this difficulty
- Charlie Evans Jeffers: No, I am by my nature an impatient man, Captain.
- Capt. Barney Miller: But, you are also a realist
- Charlie Evans Jeffers: Well, the secret of being able to serving time is to accept the circumstance, to resign yourself to the fact that escape is impossible. Well, the more I escaped, the more difficult it became to accept that philosophy. Prison became increasingly unbearable because it became increasingly unnecessary.
- Capt. Barney Miller: But you always got caught
- Charlie Evans Jeffers: Well nobody's perfect
- Capt. Barney Miller: What about this time ? Gonna try again ?
- Charlie Evans Jeffers: I don't know. It isn't nearly as interesting outside as it use to be. I suppose these last few escapes were merely for the sake of doing
- Capt. Barney Miller: Why don't you just sit it out for awhile, try for parole ?
- Charlie Evans Jeffers: Maybe I will this time, certainly the challenge is no longer there. Perhaps it's time, I'm gonna have to be practical and yes,very very bored.
- Det. Sgt. Chano Amenguale, Det. Ron Harris: Hey man, it's fiction, you always use first person singular in fiction
- Det. Sgt. Chano Amenguale: Oh yeah ? Next time you and me, we, find ourselves in an alley with some guy with a knife, how would you like to find yourself, first person and singular ?
- Capt. Barney Miller: Mr. Jeffers, I just spoke to somebody in the Attorney General's Office, they told me if you hung around long enough, you could be eligible for parole in a couple of years. Think you can stand it ?
- Harry: Goodbye, my Coney Island baby, so long to you my own true love, boom, boom, boom... Well, I did not want to disturb anyone... I'm going to sail away and leave you, never to return, so you can a distant... So long, my Coney Island, Goodbye, my Coney Island...
- Det. Stan 'Wojo' Wojciehowicz: Hey Barn, television station's on the phone. They want to know if they can come down here and get pictures and interview with Jeffers
- Capt. Barney Miller: Boy, news travel fast, you tell them, they have to have permission from the Public Information Office of the Police Department and Attorney General's Office in Albany
- Charlie Evans Jeffers: No, it was inevitable. I suppose, I was even looking forward to it. My carelessness may well have been premeditated.
- Charlie Evans Jeffers: The years force a certain amount of wisdom upon you, whether you like it or not
- Roland Gusik: Death has never been a deterrent
- Capt. Barney Miller: Self-destruction happens to be against the law in this state, Mr. Gusik
- Roland Gusik: If I fall from valor, its my business
- Det. Ron Harris: Unless you fall on someone else... Should I take him over to Bellevue ?
- Capt. Barney Miller: No, have them pick him up , I can't spare the man
- Capt. Barney Miller: Mr Jeffers, I was just talking to some of the reporters downstairs, they tell me, you spent 30 years in jail for stealing one automobile
- Charlie Evans Jeffers: It was one hell of a car
- Capt. Barney Miller: One to five grand larceny auto and twenty five years accumulated escape time
- Charlie Evans Jeffers: Compound Interest you might call it
- Roland Gusik: We are finished as a culture. Do you know that. Where courage is a sickness, and imagination is a crime, culture is dead ! The minute we start spitting on pioneers, we had it ! Be careful with those wings, they are going to the Smithsonian.
- Roland Gusik: This is aerodynamic engineering, this is not chazerai. These were designed to give me the configuration of a thrush. My body happens to be a perfect airfoil.