- Johnny Gates: Then for a $10 cheque I get sent up for one-to-fourteen years! For ten dollars! Yeah, and a number branded on me that'll never come off. And you're to help me, huh? What can you do - what can anybody do now? I'm a con. And when I get outta here, I'll be an ex-con, and I'll be walkin' the same streets, no job, no money, no hope for the future. Can you change any of that? Sure, I'll get sent up again, and be a two-time loser. And you know it, don't you?
- 'Dad' Schultz - Convict: I've been in here twenty years.
- Johnny Gates: Twenty years?
- 'Dad' Schultz - Convict: Yes sir, twenty years. That's a long time, ain't it? But, you know, it'll go just like that
- [clicks fingers]
- 'Dad' Schultz - Convict: if you're happy!
- Red Manson: I think it's swell of you to get the kid such a good job. Yeah - he brings books back to the cell every night. You know, books are a wonderful thing. I didn't know what I was missin'. I been doin' a lotta thinkin' about a lotta things. I got you all wrong. Why, you're OK! I'd sure like to have a chance to square myself. Maybe you could get me a job in the library. So I could be near the books, and then I could learn things.
- Father Joe Collins: You're not fooling anybody, Red.
- Red Manson: Ah - some day I'm gonna take a sock at you!
- Father Joe Collins: I'll be looking forward to that.