- Judge Carter: At least he's no hypocrite. I'm afraid the rest of us aren't motivated by anything quite so clear cut as a profit.
- Paladin: Well, Mr Pike, I think I'll stay close to you, just so I know what's on your mind, just so I don't take any chance on a bullet in the back.
- Paladin: There is a very ancient Sanskrit saying: If one is going to skin a tiger, one is wise to make certain first that it is dead.
- Paladin: That funny? That really funny to you? Three men! Three human beings strangled on their own lust, their own greed? That there's so much evil in this world that a man like Tarnitzer can play on it even after he's dead? And for nothing!
- Judge Carter: Judge. I was a judge, but not any longer. There's our judge now. Look at him. The very picture of impeccable majesterial authority.