- Axel Nordmann: Excuse me, a-are you in charge here?
- Night Boss: Yeah.
- Axel Nordmann: I-I'm looking for a guy named Charlie Malick.
- Night Boss: He ain't here. He works the day shift.
- Axel Nordmann: Excuse me.
- Night Boss: Yeah.
- Axel Nordmann: The thing is-a, I'm looking for work.
- Night Boss: Nothin' I can do for ya kid, you'll have to come back in the mornin'.
- Tommy Tyler: The thing is, a man's gotta make a choice. You know, I mean, there are the men... and then there are the lower forms. And a guy's gotta make a choice. You go with the men and you're 10 feet tall. You go with the lower forms and you are down in the slime.
- Axel Nordmann: Well, what happens if you don't want to go with anybody?
- Tommy Tyler: Then you are alone, man, and that's the worst.