- Mr. Craig: I didn't kill no priest and you know it.
- Detect. Lieutenant Mandel: What I can't prove I don't know.
- Mr. Craig: Nobody lends you money - a kid like you, drivin' a truck making $30 bucks a week. You're a bad risk. Money, money that's all that counts in this rat race. If you got it, they'll bury her like a queen. If you ain't, they'll pack her in a box and shove her in a hole in the ground...
- Martin Lynn: [speaking to his dead mother] I couldn't get you any flowers. And there won't be any music, and there won't be any limousines. Maybe nobody'll even show up. just the two of us. That's all we ever had. It'll be enough now.
- Martin Lynn: I want a big funeral for my mother and I'm not going to go until you promise to give it to her.