- Ricketts: Son, every time that brain of yours starts punching out data, public property is in danger, women cry and dogs bark.
- Charlie Pride: You wanna know about spirit business?
- Cody: Like bunyips, sir? Like donkegin?
- Charlie Pride: Are you a man?
- Cody: I'm a boy.
- Charlie Pride: Maybe we find out, eh.
- Cody: Sir?
- Charlie Pride: You like to dance?
- Cody: Dance?
- Charlie Pride: You like to dance with the devil?
- Cody: I don't understand.
- Charlie Pride: First you dance with the devil. Then you find out about donkegin.
- Cody: When you were my age and you wanted to do something and your parents wouldn't let you 'cause it was too dangerous, would you have promised them or would you have lied?
- Ricketts: You wanna keep the kid. The kid wants to keep you. But if he gets killed, well those welfare people aren't going to give you permanent custody are they.
- Henry: [concerning donkegin hole] There's only one thing we can do. We can get the air force up here with a couple of them Excocet missiles... nuke the shit outta the entire area... give those friggin' frogs something to dream about.