- Dr. Ziphoryn: That's a good beginning, Richard. Accepting responsibility for your actions is the first step on the road to recovery.
- Richard Speck: [scoffs] No, no, no, no, no, no... You got it all wrong, doc. I ain't interested in recoverin'. I'm inhuman. I'm not a, a man. Or a woman. I just do what I please.
- Dr. Ziphoryn: Richard, do you realize that you're going to be in this jail for the rest of your life?
- Richard Speck: Don't make no difference.
- [first lines]
- Richard Speck: Hell, if they knew how much fun I was havin' in here, they'd let me loose.
- Richard Speck: This is my dinner, a pickle and some peanuts.
- Stewardess in Bar: That's like pregnancy food. Just need some ice cream.
- Richard Speck: Do you wanna get pregnant?
- Stewardess in Bar: Not 'til I have my M-R-S degree.
- Hobo: Why would you wanna go on a do somethin' like that to yourself?
- Richard Speck: Does it matter?
- Hobo: Sure it matters. When a man decides this here earth ain't right no more, it matters.
- Richard Speck: Well, I just seemed like dyin'. I figured if I died it wouldn't be no big deal. I just didn't think it would take so goddamn long.
- Hobo: Well, nobody said it was gonna be easy.
- Richard Speck: Aw, the cuttin' easy. It's the dyin' part that's the son of a bitch.
- Hobo: You got the devil inside you son. The devil himself.
- Richard Speck: Oh yeah, he's up in there somewhere doin' a waltz.
- Sondra: I want to look him right in the eye and let the devil know that there's a warrior in his midst.
- Richard Speck: I tell ya, I might just have to move to Washington, DC, they got a hell of a crime rate there. That might be just the town for a guy like me.
- Tyrone: Richie, why don't you turn off the camera so we can have some fun...
- Richard Speck: Nah, I want everyone out there to see how I run this here cell block. I want everyone to see that Richard F. Speck has all the control.