- Franz Huchel: And my dreams! I don't know where they're all coming from. I can't imagine... that such strange things can grow by themselves in my head.
- Otto Trsnjek: A bad cigar, tastes like horse shit, a good cigar tastes like tobacco, but a very good cigar, tastes like the world.
- Otto Trsnjek: Study the customers, Franzl. Pick up on their habits, their preferences. A tobacconist's capital is his memory.
- Prof. Sigmund Freud: You know, women are like cigars. If you pull at them too hard, they won't give you any pleasure.