- Richard Onslow Roper: See, children grow up thinking the adult world is ordered, rational, fit for purpose. It's crap. Becoming a man is realising, that it's all rotten. Realising how to celebrate that rottenness, that's freedom.
- Lance Corkoran: [to Jonathan] Off every tree, you may freely eat, maids, serving wenches, cooks, typists, masseuses, even the ladies who comes to clip the canaries claws...
- Lance Corkoran: [refers to Jed] But if you lay one hand on that precious fruit, then like the Belgians in the Congo, I'll chop it off. And I don't mean the hand.