- Fico Fellove: [to man about to be executed] Life is becoming a dress rehearsal for a show nobody will see.
- Fico Fellove: You're lucky you're on the other side of the room!
- Ricardo Fellove: I feel lucky that I'm on the other side of the room, it probably stinks on that side of the room.
- Fico Fellove: [preparing his gun]
- The Writer: Can I offer a serious thought from someone who is never serious?
- Fico Fellove: No.
- The Writer: Then that was it.
- Don Federico Fellove: Do you know what a zugzwang is?
- Fico Fellove: It's a chess move.
- Don Federico Fellove: It is a chess move that is no move at all. It is actually a position. A position in which each player will obtain a worse result if it were his time to move, than if it were not. Do you follow?
- Don Donoso Fellove: A double bind.
- Don Federico Fellove: [pointing to himself and Fico] A reciprocal situation. All you have to do is act accordingly. Which means...
- Don Donoso Fellove: ...to not act at all.
- The Writer: [indicating Fico] When I grow up I want to be just like him.
- Aurora Fellove: Why?
- The Writer: Because, he never pays.
- Fico Fellove: What illegal gambling?
- Bola de Nieve: We caught two stage hands playing cards.
- Fico Fellove: And that's illegal?
- Miliciana Muñoz: Oh, it's worse than that. It is a dangerous distraction to the masses.
- Bola de Nieve: "The opium of the people." Marx said it.
- The Writer: I thought Marx said religion was the opiate of the people.
- Miliciana Muñoz: Marx said that too.
- The Writer: Carl or Groucho?
- Fico Fellove: Havana is very much like a rose: it has petals, and it has thorns... So it depends on how you grab it, but in the end, it always grabs you...
- Fico Fellove: Why are you so unhappy?
- Aurora Fellove: I'm not unhappy, I'm just sad.
- Fico Fellove: Don't be.
- Aurora Fellove: It's in my nature.
- Fico Fellove: Hey, beauty's your nature.
- Aurora Fellove: Sad can be beautiful.
- Fico Fellove: Sad yes, but not sadness.
- The Writer: Did you know that Cuba is half white, half black, and half Chinese?
- Waitress in NY: That's three halves.
- The Writer: Everything is coming in threes these days, even halves. Which half are you?
- Waitress in NY: Owner.