Miss Schlowski: What did it feel like to hit that son of a bitch?
Detective John Kimble: It felt great.
Miss Schlowski: Your teacher, Miss O'Hara, had to go somewhere.
Dominic: Where'd she go?
Miss Schlowski: That doesn't matter.
Lowell: Did she die?
Miss Schlowski: No, Lowell, she went to see someone.
Lowell: Did they die?
Miss Schlowski: No, Lowell.
Lowell: Everyone dies, you know.
Billy Kwan: What then must we do? We must give with love to whoever God has placed in our path.
Billy Kwan: Are you going to this?
Guy Hamilton: You're joking.
Billy Kwan: You might learn something.
Guy Hamilton: I doubt it. The British don't let much slip.
Billy Kwan: Oh, yes they do. They're just more subtle. You ought to listen harder.
Billy Kwan: I would have given up the world for her. You wouldn't even give up one story.
Billy Kwan: Here, on the quiet page, I am the master.
Billy Kwan: Most of us become children again when we enter the slums of Asia. And last night I watched you walk back into childhood. With all its opposite intensities: laughter and misery, the crazy and the grim, toy town and a city of fear.
Billy Kwan: I believed in you. I thought you were a man of light. That's why I gave you those stories you think are so important. I made you see things. I made you feel something about is right. I gave you my trust. So did Jill. I created you.
Billy Kwan: -Don't think about the major issues. You do what you can about the misery in front of you. You add your light to the sum of all light.
Billy Kwan: If it's in focus, it's pornography, if it's out of focus, it's art.
Billy Kwan: Starvation is a great aphrodisiac.
Billy Kwan: We'll make a great team, old man. You for the words, me for the pictures. I can be your eyes.
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