- Carlyle: Y'know, if they send me over to that Vietnam, I'll be cool. 'Cause I been dodging bullets and shit, man, ever since I was old enough to get on pussy and make it happy to know me.
- Cokes: Hey, hey. Why is he crying?
- Roger: He's crying because he's a queer.
- Cokes: You a queer, boy?
- Richie: Yes, Sergeant.
- Cokes: How long you been a queer?
- Richie: I don't know.
- Roger: All of his fucking life.
- Cokes: Don't be talking mean at him. Ain't two months ago, maybe even yesterday, I called a kid who was a queer a lot of awful names. Now I just want to be figuring things out.
- Richie: I don't know what's hurting in me. I don't know what's hurting in me.
- Cokes: Oh, no, no, boy. You listen to me. You're going to be okay. There's a lot of worse things than being a queer in this world. I mean, you could have leukemia. That's worse.