- Ryan O'Reilly: I've never been big on tomatoes.
- Nino Schibetta: You Irish, you got no appreciation for the simple things in life.
- Ryan O'Reilly: What's simpler than a potato?
- Augustus Hill: I ain't saying drugs are good. But when your past is past and your present sucks and your future holds nothing but broken promises and dead dreams, the drugs'll kill the pain. Listen up, America, you ain't ever gonna get rid of drugs until you cure pain.
- [Scott Ross, an old friend of Schillinger's, arrives in Oz. Schillinger enters his pod and grabs his crotch]
- Scott Ross: You got 10 minutes to get your hands off my dick.
- Donald Groves: [gives Alvarez a stamp] Here.
- Miguel Alvarez: I don't wanna write anybody a fucking letter. I wanna get fucking high.
- Donald Groves: You lick the back. It's liquid LSD.
- Miguel Alvarez: Groves, this gives stamp collecting a whole new meaning, baby.
- Leo Glynn: Hey, Tim, want to grab some dinner?
- Tim McManus: Appreciate it, Leo. I can't.
- Leo Glynn: Too much work to do, right? You can take a break from saving the world. Even Jesus had supper.
- Tim McManus: Yeah, and right afterwards he was betrayed and crucified.
- Leo Glynn: I'll try not to take that personally.
- Nino Schibetta: Adebisi, that ends with an "I". You sure you're not Italian?
- Simon Adebisi: Schibetta, that ends with an "A". You sure you're not African?
- Simon Adebisi: O'Reily.
- Ryan O'Reilly: Yeah?
- Simon Adebisi: Go see Schibetta.
- Ryan O'Reilly: Since when are you his Western Union?
- Simon Adebisi: Since we partners.
- Ryan O'Reilly: We?
- Simon Adebisi: Yeah.
- Ryan O'Reilly: You're the monkey chained to his organ grinder.
- Simon Adebisi: Better watch that pretty little ass.
- Ryan O'Reilly: No need. You're too busy watching it for me.
- Ronald Poklewaldt: Markstrom and his crew, I need to know how they're getting their shit into Oz.
- Ryan O'Reily: What are you doing market research now?
- Ryan O'Reily: [while talking to a CO about bringing him some more tits] What can I say? We go braless in Em City.
- Bob Rebadow: I'm sorry that you're ill.
- Kareem Said: And who told you that I was ill?
- Bob Rebadow: God.
- Kareem Said: Oh, yes. You talk to God.
- Bob Rebadow: When he's in town.
- Kareem Said: Well, in Islam, we believe that only two people spoke to God directly. Mohammad, and praise be to him, and Moses. So, you see, you are in excellent company.
- Bob Rebadow: You think I'm lying or deluded.
- Kareem Said: Oh, yes.
- Bob Rebadow: I may well be. I do know sometimes I can see inside men's souls.
- Kareem Said: And can you see into mine, old man?
- Bob Rebadow: Yes.
- Kareem Said: And what is there?
- Bob Rebadow: Anger.
- Kareem Said: Yes, I am angry. I am angry at a society that cripples my people and infects their bodies.
- Bob Rebadow: No. You're angry at God.
- Kareem Said: I am not. My illness is Allah's will and I accept the bad as well as the good that God gives me.
- Bob Rebadow: Still, you're angry at him and afraid. Afraid of dying.
- Kareem Said: That is not true.
- Bob Rebadow: You watched Jefferson Keane die, die gladly. Keane embraced death like a lover, like a traveler going home. You saw that and were afraid. You realized you're not as willing to go.
- Kareem Said: Get out of here, old man. Get out!
- Tim McManus: Yeah, what I'm saying is your officers are doing a shit job. The whole concept behind Emerald City is that you never take your eyes off anyone.
- Officer Diane Whittlesey: We don't.
- Tim McManus: Well, then how do you explain Beecher getting a swastika burned onto his ass or Miguel Alvarez cutting his face all up or inmates using classrooms to snort fucking heroin?
- Officer Diane Whittlesey: It's life, Tim. Shit slides through. If you don't like the way I run things, replace me.
- Tim McManus: You know I'm not gonna do that, Diane.
- Officer Diane Whittlesey: Why? 'Cause we're fucking each other?