- Roco Bonnaro: I wonder: If I had met you earlier in my lifetime, do you think that we would have been friends?
- Stella Bonnaro: I... I never got to see Roco once with my own eyes... Hey, what was Rocco like?
- Spike Spiegel: You know better than anyone, without looking. He was a terrific guy. Exactly the person you thought he was.
- Roco Bonnaro: How did you do that?
- Spike Spiegel: You're tense, I'm calm. You apply excessive force; I control that force through fluid motion. That means relaxing the whole body so it can react instantly without resistance-no, without thought. Do you see now? It means becoming like clear water.
- Roco Bonnaro: Water?
- Spike Spiegel: Right. Water can take any form. It drifts without effort one moment then pounds down in a torrent the very next.