- Chalky White: I was born in Elgin, Texas. My daddy taught himself the carpenter trade, do it for the black folk there. I tell you, anything that man put his hand to - table, chair, wedding chest - he'd make that wood sing. Now one day, a man, Mr. T.O. Purcell, come around. He a white man. Own his own store, stable, hotel. He say to my daddy, "I hears you the finest carpenter in Elgin." My daddy tell him, "Well, I can't say one way or the other, but, uh, I knows a bit about somethin'." So Mr. T.O. Purcell take my daddy to this house he was building. Biggest house in town. They walk in there, say, "This here gon' be the libary. Whatchu think 'bout that?" My daddy say, "Well, I thinks you need some bookcases." "Well, then, that's what I want you to make me." Ten month my daddy worked there, and when he finish, he bring me round. "Uh, Mr. Purcell, this here my boy. I'd like to show him what I done." "Well, come on in, through the front door!" Just like that. And we did. And when I seen them bookcases, all carved with scroll and flowers, baskets of fruit, little angels floating in the corner... that was the most beautiful thing I ever seen. 'Bout a month later, 'nother man come round. "I seen what you did for T.O. Can't let that old dog top me. You come 'round my house and I'll show you what I need." My daddy go with him to the edge of town. Wasn't nothing there but six white men, twelve foot of rope, and the pepper tree they hung him from.
- [unfolds a cloth parcel]
- Chalky White: These here my daddy's tools.
- Joseph Earl Dinler: [nervously] What are you gonna do with 'em?
- Chalky White: Well... I ain't buildin' no bookcase.
- Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson: One hand washes the other, and both hands wash the face.
- Deputy Halloran: Take a lot of suds to wash Chalky's face.
- Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson: Appropriations money. Almost $30 million for Jersey alone you can bet your keester I'm going to get a piece of that pie.
- Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson: [Eddie looks confused] It's an expression, "a piece of the pie". Don't you have pie in Germany?
- Eddie Kessler: We have strudel.
- Lucky Luciano: Mrs. Darmody?
- Gillian Darmody: Yes?
- Lucky Luciano: I'm a friend of James.
- Gillian Darmody: His friends call him Jimmy. So who are you really?
- Lucky Luciano: I'm, uh, what you call an acquaintance from New York.
- Gillian Darmody: That part I suspected. What's your name?
- Lucky Luciano: Never mind my name. Is he here or ain't he?
- Gillian Darmody: He's not.
- Lucky Luciano: Then where is he?
- Gillian Darmody: Maybe he's up your ass. Have you considered looking there?
- Lucky Luciano: You got a fresh mouth for a broad. Maybe I need to smack it.
- Gillian Darmody: The roughneck bit... is that what little girls are going for these days?
- Al Capone: [after shooting a round next to Jimmy's ear as he sleeps for a joke] Look at the soldier!. Boy, you'd have pissed your pants if you were wearin' any!