Doctor: I'm anxious to find out where insanity ends and evil begins.
Prostitute: This is Irmy, she's with the circus. She needs a place to flop tonight. Prostitute: What do you do in the circus, huh? Irmy: I'm a sword-swallower. Prostitute: Oh, a sword-swallower, that's my specialty, too.
Irmy: I slept with someone for it. Does that makes me a whore? Kleinmann: (Referring to the money he's holding) This? Irmy: Just one person. Does that make me a whore? Kleinmann: Well, no, only by the dictionary definition.
Kleinman: A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men. I have the strength of one small boy... with polio.
Alma: (Angrily) Get out and die! Get out and die! You rot in Hell, you filthy vermin! Kleinmann: It's good to see you're not bitter after all these years.
Kleinmann: I know what I think but I don't know how to put it into words. Maybe I could get a little bit drunk and dance it for you.
Clown: We're not like other people, we're artists, you know with great talent comes responsibility.
Irmy: My father used to say, we're all happy, if we only knew it.
Irmy: (after sex) You were wonderful! Student Jack: It's not necessary for me to be wonderful. I was paying.
(last lines) Kleinmann: What better way to - to spend the rest of my life than - than to help you with - with all those wonderful illusions of yours! Roustabout: It's true. Everybody loves his illusions. Magician: Loves them. They need them. Like they need the air.
Prostitute: May all your ups and downs be in bed.
Prostitute: The only love that lasts is unrequited love.
Kleinmann: I can't even make a leap of faith to believe in my own existence
(first lines) Hacker: Kleinman, Kleinman, open up! Kleinman! We know you're in there!
Kleinmann: Uh, I've... I've never paid for sex in my life. Prostitute: Oh, you just think you haven't. (laughs)
Kleinman: I don't know enough to be incompetent.
Alma: (to Kleinmann) Whatever they think of you, I'm sure you're guilty of it!
Clown: I never do it with whores. You start out with a burning desire and then you end up the next day with a burning sensation if you know what I mean...
Kleinmann: So when you have the sword down your throat, what happens if you get hiccups?