- Philip E. Marlow: Why?... Why is it when you lose your health the entire medical profession takes it as axiomatic you also lost your mind!
- Ali: Okay, okay bloody dog, me!
- [he gives a cigarette to marlow who drags and coughs]
- Ali: Good?
- Philip E. Marlow: Good? Bloody marvellous!
- Philip E. Marlow: [as Ali tries to light a cigarette for him] The wheel, Ali! The little wheel! God, I can see the headlines now. Another Asian burned to death. No... that sort of thing doesn't make the news anymore. Not now the National Front are investing in Tandoori ovens.