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Brewster
- Officer Douglas Breen: [At the zoo: throwing Brewster, with his expensive camera, into some bushes] Get over in there!
- Officer Douglas Breen: [Holding up a small cylindrical paper object] You know what this is?
- Brewster McCloud: A poorly rolled cigarette.
- Officer Douglas Breen: It's a marijuana cigarette. It's dope. It's dope I picked up after I saw you drop it outta' your pocket. You give me that camera and we'll forget this little matter. If ya' don't, it's one to ten. So take your pick.
- Brewster McCloud: Mister, one of us is crazy.
- Officer Douglas Breen: Oh, yeah?
- [Pulls out his badge and holds it out]
- Officer Douglas Breen: "Breen." "Narcotics."
- [a bird turd promptly splats on the badge]
- Louise: Nothing goes on between you two, does it?
- Brewster McCloud: Me and Hope?
- Louise: She seems so passionate.
- Brewster McCloud: I really didn't notice.
- Louise: Do you ever think about that sort of thing?
- Brewster McCloud: What?
- Louise: Girls, you know. Sex.
- Brewster McCloud: Louise, I think you've been talking to Hope. She just asked the the exact same thing.
- Brewster McCloud: Why do you always ask me about Hope?
- Louise: Because she's passionate. She can involve you.
- Brewster McCloud: Involve me? In what?
- Louise: Sex.
- Brewster McCloud: Is Hope really like that?
- Louise: People like accept what's been told to them. They don't think they can be free. They don't even believe they can be free. Their sex is the closest thing they have to...
- Brewster McCloud: Fly.
- Louise: Yes. Fly.
- Brewster McCloud: Don't they want to fly?
- Louise: Oh, yes, at first. But something happens to them as they grow. They turn more and more toward Earth. When they experience sex, they simply settle for it and procreate more on their own kind. That's why you must never be tempted.
- Officer Douglas Breen: Hey, that must have set you back a pretty penny.
- Brewster McCloud: This was a present from my grandfather.
- Officer Douglas Breen: What's your grandfather? Some Jew millionaire?
- Officer Douglas Breen: Hey, that's a nice lookin' camera you got there. Jap camera, ain't it?
- Brewster McCloud: Yeah, a Nikon.
- Officer Douglas Breen: Yeah, that's what I thought.
- Hope: Brewster, what's the difference between rose hips and regular vitamin C?
- Brewster McCloud: They're organic.
- Hope: What does organic mean?
- Brewster McCloud: Hope, you're the one who works at the health food store. You're the one that's supposed to know that.
- Hope: Mrs. Harper never tells me anything. She just yells at me.