- Boon Hoggenbeck: Sometimes you have to say goodbye to the things you know and hello to the things you don't!
- Narrator: We didn't fear death, in those days, because we believed that your outside was just what you lived in and slept in, and had no connection to what you were.
- Boss: Don't be rude to Callie, and don't be advised by Boon. He knows no obstacles, counts no costs, fears no dangers.
- Narrator: And so we were three, three reivers high-tailing it for Memphis. Oh, "reivers". That's an old-fashioned word from my childhood. In plain English, I'm afraid it meant "thieves".
- Boon Hoggenbeck: [to Lucius before the horse race] You can be scared if you want to - you can't help that - but don't be afraid, son.
- Miss Reba: [to Boon] Why don't you take a nice cold bath, cool yourself down, then come back and show us how handsome you are.
- [Boon giving directions to Ned on how to use the Winton Flyer]
- Ned: Boon, when do you think I can have it?
- Boon Hoggenbeck: String bean you so much to lay a hand on this automobile, I'll jump down your throat, and tap dance on your lungs!
- Boss: Gentlemen can live through anything. Gentlemen accepts the responsibilities of his actions. Bears the burden of their consequences even when he himself did not instigate them but only acquiesced to them.