- Viking Lofgren: Hey, lipshitz.
- Horowitz: The name is Horowitz, asshole.
- Viking Lofgren: Horowitz asshole?
- Paco Moreno: I heard it was lipshitz.
- Viking Lofgren: Yeah, and if your lip shits, what's your asshole doin'?
- Ramon Herrera: [to Paco] Do you know what goes on in here? Time stands still. On the outside everyone is getting on with their lives; working, making money, getting laid, all that good shit. Aww, look at your bad self. I was into that gang shit for half of my life. It's dumb, fuckin', nowhere shit!
- Gene Daniels: My name is Gene Daniels. Call me Mr. Daniels, I like that, don't call me anything else.
- Mick O'Brien: I'm sorry about your little brother, Moreno.
- Paco Moreno: Oh, you really break my heart, you know that? I'm sorry about your old lady. I'm sorry I didn't get to finish the job.
- Mick O'Brien: Hey. What are the odds on me now, Perretti?
- Perretti: Three to two... against you. Nothing personal.
- Horowitz: What are you afraid of?
- Mick O'Brien: I ain't afraid of anything.
- Horowitz: Hey, after what you did to Viking and Tweety, you're IT!
- Horowitz: [after Mick has just entered the cell for the first time] So? How do you like it so far?
- Horowitz: [Mick stays silent] You got a name? Can you talk? Smoke?
- [tosses cigarette pack to Mick, who stays silent]
- Horowitz: My name's Horowitz. You don't feel like talking right now? It's okay. I understand. But you understand I really don't want a fucking mute in my cell., and I like a little conversation sometimes. Okay?
- [Mick stays silent]
- Horowitz: The last guy who was in here with me killed himself by drinking a half gallon of disinfectant, he liked the place so much!
- [Mick stays silent, and Horowitz shrugs and turns away from him]
- Mick O'Brien: [breaking the silence] My name's O'Brien.
- Horowitz: [turning back to face Mick] Shit! A fucking Mick!
- Gene Daniels: Hey, Horowitz, stand up, man. You read this to the class.
- [hands Horowitz a newspaper article]
- Horowitz: Youth killed in robbery attempt. A youth died Saturday from gunshot wounds received in an attempted holdup of a liquor store. Police said Warren Jerome of Chicago was shot twice in the abdomen by the proprietor of the High Jay liquor store on Kimball Avenue, after brandishing a pistol and demanding money. Jerome died undergoing surgery at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Hospital.
- Horowitz: [looking up at Mr. Daniels] So?
- Inmate #1: So what? Who the fuck is Warren Jerome?
- Inmate # 2: Who the fuck cares?
- Inmate # 3: Really. Who the fuck cares?
- Viking Lofgren: Shut up!
- [Class falls silent]
- Gene Daniels: Yeah, Viking, tell them who Warren Jerome was.
- Viking Lofgren: That was Tweety, you assholes.
- [the other inmates are speechless]
- Horowitz: That's Lofgren. They call him Viking. I call him shit for brains.
- Viking Lofgren: Shut your fucking mouth, Horowitz.
- Ramon Herrera: The only reason you're here is because there is no room for you anywhere else.
- Paco Moreno: Well, why don't you get me a room at the Holiday Inn?
- Ramon Herrera: Why don't you wise up?
- Carl Brennan: [after Mick hands him the gun] Jesus!
- Mick O'Brien: Don't be such a pussy! We're gonna be in and out of there so fast. You don't have to use it!
- [claps]
- Mick O'Brien: Like that!
- Gene Daniels: [inmates begin laughing in class because others demonstrate poor reading skills] Hey, look, this is nothing to laugh at. Now, maybe if some of you could read, you wouldn't be in here. You ever think about that?
- Gene Daniels: Look, you think of yourself as a moron, you can't feel that good about yourself, now, can you?
- Gene Daniels: I just got back the results of that literacy test you took, that reading test. You should be in the third grade.
- Horowitz: [explaining his sentence to Mick] I firebombed the bowling alley, killed three people. I was goofing around with some girls. Their boyfriends didn't like it too much, beat the shit out of me. Came back the next night, totaled the place. Only thing was, I wasted the wrong three people.