- Hanzee Dent: [walks into a bigot bar and approaches the bartender] Water.
- [the bartender fetches him a glass of water and hands it to him contaminated with saliva]
- Hanzee Dent: Did you spit in this?
- Bartender: What?
- Hanzee Dent: Tequila. Pour it in front of me.
- Bartender: [pours him a shot of tequila] Here you go, chief.
- Hanzee Dent: Looking for a couple. Redheaded man and a blond woman driving a blue Lincoln.
- Bartender: White couple? Didn't you guys try to start your own country a while back? Wounded Knee. What happened there? Didn't you feel like being Americans anymore?
- Hanzee Dent: I'm not from there.
- Bartender: Yeah. See, well, I'm not sure I wanna serve alcohol to a man who doesn't want to be an American.
- Hanzee Dent: How about a man who did three tours in Vietnam who's got a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star?
- Bartender: Who, you?
- Hanzee Dent: [downs the tequila and sets a bill down on the counter] You're welcome.
- [leaves]
- Dodd Gerhardt: I got four daughters, you know. I'm not a bad guy.
- Peggy Blumquist: You called me a whore. I heard.
- Albert: Peggy.
- [Peggy looks around, confused, and sees a vision of Albert next to Dodd's unconscious body]
- Albert: Have you actualized fully?
- Peggy Blumquist: What?
- Albert: Have you actualized fully?
- Peggy Blumquist: I don't know. I mean, I'm tryin'.
- Albert: Do you feel cold sometimes, even when it's hot?
- Peggy Blumquist: Sometimes.
- Albert: Do you understand the difference between thinking and being?
- Peggy Blumquist: What do you mean?
- Albert: Do you understand the difference between thinking and being?
- Peggy Blumquist: I...
- Albert: To be is simply to exist. Try it. Try simply being.
- [Peggy closes her eyes, tries to sit quietly for a moment]
- Peggy Blumquist: I'm sorry... but how is sittin' here gonna help me be the best person I can be?
- Albert: Ah. You want an explanation.
- Peggy Blumquist: Well, kinda.
- Albert: The human mind, aroused by an insistence for meaning, seeks and finds nothing but contradiction and nonsense.
- Peggy Blumquist: Okay. It's just, practically, I'm sayin', uh, as a person, a married person, a woman who's worried she's not livin' up to her full potential...
- Albert: Think or be. You can't do both.
- Peggy Blumquist: [slowly] You're sayin'... don't think about the person I wanna be. Just be that person.
- Albert: Peggy.
- Peggy Blumquist: Don't think about the person I wanna be, just be that person!
- Hanzee Dent: [Asking the gas station guy] Looking for a redhead.
- Maynard Oltorf: Well, uh... Not sure I can help you there.
- Hanzee Dent: Redhead, heavyset.
- Maynard Oltorf: Okay, well, there's a bar a mile or so up the road. You could potentially meet a fat-type girl there.
- Hanzee Dent: I'm not looking for a girl. I'm looking for a man. Heavyset, he parts his hair in the middle.
- Peggy Blumquist: How come we have never come here before?
- Ed Blumquist: You said Uncle Grady smelled like athlete's foot.
- [You ask me how come I buy all these magazines? I'm livin' in a museum of the past]