- [last lines]
- Kleinmann: What better way to - to spend the rest of my life than - than to help you with - with all those wonderful illusions of yours!
- Roustabout: It's true. Everybody loves his illusions.
- Magician: Loves them. They need them. Like they need the air.
- Kleinman: A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men. I have the strength of one small boy... with polio.
- Clown: I never do it with whores. You start out with a burning desire and then you end up the next day with a burning sensation if you know what I mean...
- Prostitute: This is Irmy, she's with the circus. She needs a place to flop tonight.
- Prostitute: What do you do in the circus, huh?
- Irmy: I'm a sword-swallower.
- Prostitute: Oh, a sword-swallower, that's my specialty, too.
- Prostitute: There's only one kind of love that lasts, that's unrequited love. It stays with you forever.
- Irmy: [after sex] You were wonderful!
- Student Jack: It's not necessary for me to be wonderful. I was paying.
- Irmy: This is real, isn't it? And beautiful. I mean just think about it for a minute. Here we are, we're two strangers, and we're out in the night, and it's just so peaceful and quiet. And suddenly there's a little clearing in the fog and we can see right out to the stars. Doesn't this moment just seem perfect?
- Kleinmann: Yes, but, you know, it - it passes so quickly. Look. And even now the fog is starting to go back in and, you know, everything's always moving all the time, you know. Everything's constantly in motion, so - so it's no wonder that l'm nauseous.
- Magician: l once produced a rabbit from between the bosoms of the Queen of Denmark. A small rabbit. Small bosoms.
- Student Jack: l find this atmosphere a lot more stimulating than university.
- Prostitute: As long as we do the stimulating.
- Kleinmann: I know what I think but I don't know how to put it into words. Maybe I could get a little bit drunk and dance it for you.
- Vigilante: Don't play dumb, Kleinman. Do you live on an island? Tonight's a foggy night. He always strikes in the fog.
- Prostitute: There's only one thing that men will brave murder for: that little furry animal between our legs.
- Doctor: Why are you doing this? Oh. what a foolish question to ask an irrational mind.
- Killer: What do you know about my mind?
- Doctor: l know that if l were to examine the inside of your brain, l should find chaos. And yet l am anxious to know where insanity stops and evil begins.
- Killer: So many questions.
- Irmy: You never take your eyes off her. You're always standing under her trapeze looking up her legs. l see you!
- Undesirables Onlooker: The police say they may be involved in the killings.
- Kleinmann: That's the Mintz family. l know them. They're very lovely people. He does quality circumcisions. l've seen his work.
- Student Jack: l gave her the best time she's had in years, and l believe she loved it. Not that l have any further urge for her, you know. The difference between love and lust, l guess.
- Alma: We looked everywhere! My father, my mother, my brothers. ''Where could he be?'' ''He was here before the ceremony. True, he was drinking.''
- Kleinmann: Listen, l know what you're gonna say.
- Alma: While everybody's walking around, puzzled and muttering - sensing my discomfort, he's discovered in a broom closet, making love with my sister.
- Kleinmann: Jesus. l thought l explained that to you.
- Alma: What kind of explanation could you possibly have? You're naked in the closet with my sister!
- Kleinmann: Look at her. She still holds that against me. lt's not that l didn't like you. l just didn't love you. l thought you were pregnant. l was trying to do the honorable thing.
- Alma: The honorable thing? To desert me at the altar and make love with my younger sister in a broom closet is the honorable thing?
- Kleinmann: Look, we just had your best interests at heart.
- Student Jack: l'm afraid you've never made love with a sword-swallower.
- Clown: l beg your pardon?
- Student Jack: She claims she never took money before. And if she was acting, she should win a prize. lt's true that l put on a heroic performance, if l do say so myself. She brought out the stallion in me. And when she said she loved it, l believe she was sincere. l think she's got a lover who doesn't service her too well, you know? Some poor clown.
- Prostitute: The trick is to have as much wine, as many men, as many laughs as you can until they carry you out in a pine box, and then don't go easily.