- Robinson Crusoe: When we first met you were nothing but a savage, but I have educated you.
- Friday: When I first met you, you were a killer possessed by demons and I taught you how to sing and dance. Not very well, but I taught you that much at least. And your head was full of nothing but your own power, your own guilt, and the fear of a cruel god. But perhaps I was a very bad teacher, because your head is still full of thoughts of power and guilt and fear.
- Friday: The Romans *used* to live in Italty shaped like a boot?
- Robinson Crusoe: Correct.
- Friday: Where do the Romans live now?
- Robinson Crusoe: The Romans are all dead now. but that's not the point about the Romans. The point about the Romans is they had a great deal of *education*.
- Friday: I feel sorry for the Romans.
- Friday: There is not enough love on this island.
- Robinson Crusoe: Love... What do you suggest? We should pray for a boatload of women to be shipwrecked on the beach?
- Friday: I thought you said white man could not be killed by gun because of science magic.
- Robinson Crusoe: I laid that spell myself, Friday, so I can take it off when I like.
- Robinson Crusoe: How can you worship a banana?
- Friday: Worship any way you like. So long as you mean it, the god won't mind.
- Robinson Crusoe: Friday. I'm making no promises. If I have any spare time within the next year, I shall build us a seaworthy boat which will take us as far as your home. Perhaps.
- Friday: You're not dancing at all. Only your feet are dancing.
- Robinson Crusoe: What am I supposed to bloody dance with?
- Robinson Crusoe: If we live a bad life, when we are dead God punishes us. But a teacher can't wait until a pupil is dead, so a teacher punishes as soon as a pupil is bad.