- Detective Ray Velcoro: My powers of influence are so meager in this sublunar world of ours, I try to limit the people I can disappoint. And I make sure to know the difference between my obligations and somebody else's.
- Ernst Bodine: [showing Frank the door] Mr. Semyon.
- Frank Semyon: You don't direct me, Khe Sanh motherfucker.
- Ernst Bodine: I'm Chinese.
- Frank Semyon: Then, go stand in front of a fuckin' tank.
- [last lines]
- Frank Semyon: You got a fuckin' problem?
- Detective Ray Velcoro: You alone?
- Frank Semyon: Yeah. Why?
- Detective Ray Velcoro: You and me need to talk.
- Frank Semyon: Sometimes, a thing happens, splits your life. There's a before and after. I got like five of them at this point. And this is your first. But if you use it right, the bad thing, you use it right, and it makes you better. Stronger. It give you something most people don't have. Bad as this is, wrong as it is, this hurt, it can make you a better man. That's what pain does. It shows you what was on the inside. And inside of you, is pure gold. And I know that. Your father knew that, too.