- Katy Webster: How much do you know about girls?
- Tod Stiles: Well, enough to know you never tell a girl you're with anything about the girls you've been with before, 'cause you never know; she might be the last one and you might want her to think she's the first.
- Roxy Dozy: [discussing Buz] Doesn't he remind you of an eastern horned beetle?
- Tod Stiles: Frequently.
- Roxy Dozy: But I'm mad about him. He stimulates my mind. Most men don't think I have one, but Buz, he gets me thinking about all kinds of things.
- Tod Stiles: Yeah, that's Buz, alright.
- Cord Webster: No advice, Tod, except this. Don't stop being afraid. Not for a second. Without fear there are no heroes, only fools.
- Tod Stiles: Well, in that case, Mr. Webster, we ought to win for sure!
- Jeff: How's that thing go? "The race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the strong." Sometimes the real winner comes in last.
- Tod Stiles: [watching spellbound as race cars speed past] Amadeo Coronado in a Maserati.
- Buz Murdock: Stuff's really got you going, hasn't it?
- Tod Stiles: Every cat's got his hustle.
- Len Statler: [desperate to find Roxy and Buz] Are you sure you don't know where they are?
- Tod Stiles: Look, the last time I saw Buz he was at the track, and he said something about trying to scout up some action,
- Len Statler: Custer should have had him for a scout.
- Cord Webster: [discussing Tod's test drive in the Stanguellini] Pushed her 'round in 58, huh?
- Tod Stiles: Let's say it pushed me. It's like riding a light beam through space. Makes you wish for a road ten thousand miles long, all turns and no ending.
- Cord Webster: Some see it that way. Not many, but some. Others see it as a trap, as an asphalt coffin.
- Tod Stiles: [discussing Roxy] Hey, where you got her stashed?
- Buz Murdock: Library.
- Tod Stiles: In the public library?
- Buz Murdock: Y'see, you're just like all the rest of the guys. You take one look at a girl like Roxy and you say she can't have brains too. Well, I happen to know she wants to be an entomologist.
- Tod Stiles: Insects?
- Buz Murdock: Yeah. And she figures she's already earned her master's degree because she's met half the insects in Hollywood and Las Vegas.
- Tod Stiles: Well, let me ask you something. What does that make you?
- Buz Murdock: Well, she, uh, calls me her eastern horned beetle.
- Tod Stiles: Aww, now that's a pet name if I ever heard a pet name.
- Buz Murdock: Aw, shut up.
- Tod Stiles: Hey, beetle!
- Buz Murdock: Don't bug me!
- Cord Webster: Her mother was English; I'm a little bit of everything. I never could figure out where she gets her Latin temperament.