- Tim McManus: Said, the Muslims weren't represented at the council meeting.
- Kareem Said: If this council has real power, then we will participate.
- Tim McManus: Well, how do you mean?
- Kareem Said: Do we get to make policy or do we simply rubber stamp yours?
- Tim McManus: This is a prison, not a democracy.
- Peter Schibetta: [about O'Reily] All rats know when to desert a sinking ship. He's a smart one, but a rat just the same.
- [last lines]
- Augustus Hill: [narrating] So here's the funny part: the Spaniards actually exterminated the Aztecs by accident. Yeah, they had the horses and the cannons, but they also brought over smallpox. It was the disease that finally finished the job, a disease the Spanish gave the Aztecs without even knowing. In Oz, we do what we can to survive. But ultimately, it doesn't matter. Life always gets in the way.
- Tobias Beecher: [to Schillinger] Whatcha readin'? Mein Kampf? Well, let me tell you how it ends. The Aryans get their asses kicked!
- Tobias Beecher: Who are you?
- Agamemnon Busmalis: Agamemnon Busmalis, aka The Mole.
- Robert Rebadow: The Mole?
- Agamemnon Busmalis: I dig. I can dig anywhere. I'm gonna dig my way out of Oz.
- Augustus Hill: I tell you, I don't belong with those three clowns, man. They're crazy! Especially Beecher. I mean, forget all that shit he did to Schillinger. Beecher bit off some fucker's dick.
- Tim McManus: I know. That was ten months ago.
- Augustus Hill: Oh, yeah, well, then that's ok. I gotta share a pod, McManus. I gotta sleep with one eye open.
- Tim McManus: Sister Peter Marie says he's responding to therapy.
- Augustus Hill: Well, then let her bunk with him.
- Officer Diane Whittlesey: She leaves you in here alone?
- Tobias 'Toby' Beecher: Why? What do you think i'm gonna do? Start a Riot? Take Hostages?
- Dr. Gloria Nathan: Ryan... you may have breast cancer.
- Ryan O'Reily: [laughing] That's funny.
- Dr. Gloria Nathan: I'm not kidding.
- Ryan O'Reily: ...Breast cancer?
- [nods]
- Ryan O'Reily: Girls get breast cancer.
- Dr. Gloria Nathan: Men do too. It's rare, especially at your age, but it does happen.
- Ryan O'Reily: I'm not a fag you know that?
- Dr. Gloria Nathan: Ryan...
- Ryan O'Reily: No! I've been in this shithole for over a year and I ain't ever taken it up the ass!
- Dr. Gloria Nathan: No one is saying that you have.
- Ryan O'Reily: Bullshit! You're telling me I gotta CHICK'S DISEASE!
- Dr. Gloria Nathan: Men have breasts, same as women.
- Ryan O'Reily: What the fuck are you talking about? I don't have any breasts! I have a chest, see! See it? Huh, see it?
- Warden Leo Glynn: [Inmate Kenny Wangler started a fight in class] I want Wangler in the Hole!
- Tim McManus: It's not that he wouldn't read, he couldn't read, the kid can't read Leo.
- Warden Leo Glynn: So that excuses his behavior?
- Tim McManus: No, it gives us insight as to how to help him.
- Warden Leo Glynn: McManus, 150 years ago, it was against the law for a slave to learn to read but some did, you know why because they had a thirst for it, Now the reverse is also true, you cannot force someone to learn how to read!
- Tim McManus: I can try.
- [Glynn lets McManus keep Wangler in Em City]
- Augustus Hill: So, there used to be this tribe, the Aztecs, who believed that the universe is created by violence. Every year, in what was their version of Christmas, they would cut out someone's heart and offer it up to the gods. These people were convinced that without this sacrifice, the sun would fall from the sky and the world would come to an end. Then the Spaniards landed and wiped the Aztecs off the face of the earth. Turns out they was right; the world did come to an end.
- Augustus Hill: How the fuck did I get to be an other? On the streets I was selling dope. I was as bad as any of those homeboys. I fucking killed a cop! I get thrown in with you guys.
- Robert Rebadow: You're disabled.
- Augustus Hill: And the rest of you are fucking certifiable.
- Tim McManus: You don't want to participate, that's fine. Just don't get in my way.
- Kareem Said: McManus, you want us to be allies but that will never happen. Better for you to transfer me back to Gen Pop and be done with me.
- Tim McManus: No. When I was laying in that hospital bed and I was afraid I was gonna die, I started praying. I'm not saying I had any great spiritual awakening, Said, but I did come to realize that my God and yours aren't so different. They both expect the best from us, and for us to find the best in each other.
- Kareem Said: I've written another book, McManus. Coming out next month, it's about the riot. And when I was writing I looked for the best in you. Want to know what I found? A confused, frightened little man.
- Tim McManus: Well, I was frightened and I was confused. But you take a bullet in the chest, you see things differently. People can change, Said. Even me. Even you.
- Chucky Pancamo: Peter wants the kitchen back.
- Simon Adebisi: Tell him ok if he sucks my dick.
- Chucky Pancamo: You ain't careful, you might not have a dick to suck.
- Tobias 'Toby' Beecher: [to Vern] I'm gonna see to it that you never leave Oz. You hear me, sweetpea? Never. Ever.
- Vern Schillinger: Godammit, you fucking spic cocksucker!
- Miguel Alvarez: See? That's the Schillinger I know and love.
- Tobias 'Toby' Beecher: You know the wonderful thing about computers? They don't know right from wrong. You push a button, they do what you tell 'em to do. People aren't like that.
- Ryan O'Reily: I go back into Em City, those fucks find out, you know as well as I do any weakness, any weakness at all, and I'm dead.
- Father Ray Mukada: Look, if you do have... If you're sick and you don't do anything about it, you're dead anyway. Don't you see that? If this shit spreads through your body, then everybody's gonna know the truth. And by then it'll be too late to save your life.
- Augustus Hill: Aw, fuck.
- Tobias 'Toby' Beecher: What?
- Augustus Hill: You farted.
- Tobias 'Toby' Beecher: No, I didn't.
- Augustus Hill: Pee-fucking-yoo.
- Tobias 'Toby' Beecher: I didn't fart.
- Augustus Hill: Damn, man. Five hours 'til dawn, and I gotta be in a glass box with the King of Stink. I'm gonna get Gulf-fuckin'-war syndrome.
- Augustus Hill: [Night in Oz, and Beecher's on the top bunk] I swear Beecher, you need to go see a doctor, man. Smelly farts are a sign that something is seriously wrong on the inside.
- Tobias 'Toby' Beecher: [emphatically] I didn't fart.
- [rips an egger after a pause]
- Augustus Hill: Aw, fuck, man!
- [Beecher giggles maliciously]
- Jonathan Coushaine: [teaching a class] If there's a word one of us doesn't understand, we're gonna make a vocabulary list.
- Timmy Kirk: A what?
- Jonathan Coushaine: See? There's our first one. "Vocabulary." How many people here know what the word "vocabulary" means?
- Timmy Kirk: Ain't that a disease?
- Jonathan Coushaine: Okay, "vocabulary."
- [goes to write it on the board]
- Timmy Kirk: [to Wangler] Hey, you got that, don't you? A *limp* vocabulary?
- Kenny Wangler: Fuck you! You ain't even got one!
- Augustus Hill: Them Aztecs, they had this kid, Montezuma the Second. That's the "Halls of Montezuma" guy. One night Montezuma saw this flaming ear of corn shoot across the sky. A comet. Montezuma saw this comet as an omen, the sign of his own downfall. So he surrendered his empire to the Spanish conquistadors without a fight. Stupid fuck! You gotta fight! Even if you know you're gonna lose!
- Tim McManus: [writing his last name on a whiteboard when Kenny refuses to read a book] What does this say?
- Kenny Wangler: [pauses for a long time, examining it carefully] McDonald's.