- Stefan Brückner: Well, I should go.
- Estelle Miller: No, stay.
- Stefan Brückner: Why?
- Estelle Miller: I like to hear you talk.
- Stefan Brückner: [opening voice-over narration] I had imagined this journey as a quest. I finished my studies in math. I wanted to live. I wanted to burn all the bridges, all the formulas, and if I got burned, that was okay, too. I wanted to be warm. I wanted the sun and I went after it.
- Estelle Miller: [to Stefan] You know, I'm really worried about Cathy. She's terribly upset. I think you ought to make love to her.
- Female Party-Goer: Something stinks.
- Bearded Man: It's me.
- Female Party-Goer: May I kiss you.
- Bearded Man: No, beard's too long.
- Female Party-Goer: I dig it that way.
- Bearded Man: Up to you. I stink and I prickle.
- Stefan Brückner: You must admit, this is better than that junk of yours.
- Estelle Miller: Its very different.
- Stefan Brückner: What's the difference?
- Estelle Miller: This makes everything beautiful and alive. Horse just makes you feel very comfortable.
- Stefan Brückner: That's what horse is?
- Estelle Miller: Yeah. People who take horse want to escape from life. People who smoke this or take acid want to intensify their lives. Hippies put horse down. And junkies put down the little fools that think they've discovered the world. Hardly anybody mix the two. They live completely different ways of life.
- Estelle Miller: You know what's really awful?
- Stefan Brückner: No, tell me.
- Estelle Miller: Getting hooked. It's the end. But, if you only take one shot every once in awhile. Its no different than an occasional drink or cigarette.
- Estelle Miller: Would you like to try it?
- Stefan Brückner: No.
- Estelle Miller: Just once.
- Stefan Brückner: No!
- Estelle Miller: How can you pass up a new experience? I'd love to take it with you.
- Stefan Brückner: Do you have any left?
- Estelle Miller: Be careful, Stefan.
- Stefan Brückner: Do you have any?
- Estelle Miller: This stuff, it's pure, isn't it? Its not cut with speed or anything?
- Stefan Brückner: Of course not. I know where it comes from.
- Estelle Miller: Prosit!
- ["clinks" two LSD-laced sugar cubes with Stefan]
- Stefan Brückner: Prosit!
- Stefan Brückner: [voice over during an acid trip] A revelation of the ultimate reality of things. Of their infinite textures. The world is like new. I am ravaged by a thirst for the absolute and purity. I can clearly face up to the abominable alienation I had been led into.
- Stefan Brückner: [Sunbathing naked on the rocks] Do you know about the sun worshippers? There are young men in Calcutta who suddenly decide to devote their lives to the worship of the sun. They sit cross-legged and completely naked and stare at it all day long. Pretty soon they go blind. And after about a year they shrivel up like plants and die.
- Estelle Miller: Whoa!
- [opens her eyes and stares at the Sun]
- Charlie: How can we find some bread?
- Stefan Brückner: Work.
- Charlie: Doing what?
- Stefan Brückner: Don't know. What about selling - postcards or subway maps or something like that?
- Charlie: Yeah, man, I really can't see us.
- Stefan Brückner: How about hustling girls?
- Charlie: Same as cards, you need capital.
- Estelle Miller: Do you want to go to a party tonight?
- Stefan Brückner: Where?
- Estelle Miller: You take the road to San Jose and you go straight till the 7 kilometer mark. And you take the first turn to the right and there's this little road and there will be a big fire there. And that's where its at.
- Estelle Miller: Stefan, well, I'm really glad you came. Listen, you shouldn't take things so seriously. Because, sometimes I get a little bitchy; but, it doesn't mean anything. Okay?
- Stefan Brückner: Where are we going to sleep?
- Estelle Miller: Well, you can sleep here. I asked somebody and they'll lend you a room.
- Stefan Brückner: Yeah. What about you?
- Estelle Miller: I live with Cathy.
- Stefan Brückner: Admit it. He lays you. Do you like getting laid by old men? This is really an attractive couple. This is really groovy! Don't you think so?
- Estelle Miller: [Naked in bed together] No. I wouldn't touch it again.
- Cathy: Oh, come on, Estelle. I'm sure you have some - just in case.
- Estelle Miller: No, I haven't got any. Is David back yet?
- Cathy: No.
- Estelle Miller: Is that why you're freaking out?
- Cathy: Yes. He won't come back. I think I need a little horse.
- Estelle Miller: Okay. I'll try and get you some. But, eh, can you keep it cool? Cause Stefan's going to be back any minute.
- Cathy: [Naked in bed together] I adore you.
- Estelle Miller: Come help me, Mademoiselle.
- Cathy: No, I'm tired.
- Stefan Brückner: Tell me, what's "horse"?
- Estelle Miller: Horse?
- Stefan Brückner: Ya.
- Estelle Miller: I have no idea.
- Estelle Miller: You've been so mean to me. You kept bugging me about Wolf and everything. I'm just depressed.
- Stefan Brückner: I thought we were happy together?
- Estelle Miller: Maybe you were, but, I wasn't.
- Stefan Brückner: You were always saying that you love me.
- Estelle Miller: I do love you. It has nothing to do with it.
- Stefan Brückner: It looks like flour.
- Estelle Miller: Do you know how much that flour's worth?
- Stefan Brückner: No. How much?
- Estelle Miller: About 10 dollars.
- Estelle Miller: Mr. Brückner, would it be possible for me to pose a few questions concerning your experience of yesterday evening? How do you feel this morning?
- Stefan Brückner: Okay.
- Estelle Miller: And - how did you feel yesterday evening?
- Stefan Brückner: Oh, thank you - very much, very well. Fantastic!
- Estelle Miller: And - was it worth it?
- Stefan Brückner: Well, I believe, that everything has to be paid for. The better the value, the higher the price.
- Stefan Brückner: People never understand the Germanic temperament. Where's pleasure, without tragedy?
- Stefan Brückner: I need a fix!
- Estelle Miller: Please, Stefan, listen. It's important.
- Stefan Brückner: I tell you, I need a fix, please!
- Stefan Brückner: Why were you so afraid of me before?
- Estelle Miller: It wasn't you. It was me. I guess I don't like myself much.
- Stefan Brückner: You should. You're - You're beautiful!
- Stefan Brückner: What does Wolf do?
- Bearded Man: I told you, he does a lot of things. He's got some restaurants. He owns a hotel - and a bar. But, actually, I think its a cover. Actually, I think he ran into some trouble after the war and there's some kind of ex-Nazi thing, which is based in the Mediterranean. Anyway, that's what people say.
- Charlie: [last line - voice over] Although it was winter, the sun was shining like on a hot summer day.
- Estelle Miller: Come lie down next to me. Do whatever you like. I warn you: I want more. I won't even think about it.