- Bartender: Can I see your ID?
- Jimmy Picard: [Shows his ID card]
- Bartender: If the cops show up you're Mexican.
- Bartender: So, you're at the hospital for busted heads, right?
- Jimmy Picard: I'm in the dark there. Nobody tells me a fucking thing.
- Head of Admissions: Any children?
- Jimmy Picard: Not exactly.
- Head of Admissions: How can someone not exactly have children?
- Jimmy Picard: Another man brought up my daughter.
- Georges Devereux: You never make such a fuss about a white man. This is gross misconduct. I demand the oxyencephalogram for my patient!
- Jimmy Picard: You know, on the reservation we have an Indian agent to tell us what to to. I have lived all my life under that shit. And I come here, to the Winter Hospital, and it's even worse. I can't get away from all that. If a man keeps taking these things, as time goes on they pile up and one day it gets to be too much. Like you said. It pulls out in the weakest part of the body. It's like... pounding, in one spot. And that spot will be my head.
- [First Lines]
- Gayle Picard: Jimmy. Brother. Here, Jimmy.
- Gayle Picard: [Shakes the sleeping Jimmy to wake him up]
- Gayle Picard: Jimmy! Little Brother, wake up. Wake up, Jimmy!