Nicholas Urfe: I've missed you.
Anne: Careful. You'll be in love next.
Nicholas Urfe: I never use four-letter words.

- Michael Caine (as Nicholas Urfe) in The Magus (1968)

Nicholas Urfe: You know what's wrong with marriage, Meli? It kills the fun in life.
[bites affair liaison apple]
Nicholas Urfe: It's the timid little people who can't gamble; who always want to know where they are. It's for mice, Meli, not for men.

- Michael Caine (as Nicholas Urfe) in The Magus (1968)

Maurice Conchis: [after describing Nazi atrocity] What would you have done?
Nicholas Urfe: God Knows.
Maurice Conchis: God never has to choose. You and I do.

- Anthony Quinn (as Maurice Conchis) in The Magus (1968)

Maurice Conchis: [to Nicholas] Now, I will show you something. The ultimate reality. Not the hammer and sickle, not the stars and stripes, not lysergic acid, not the sun, not gold, not yin and yang. But
[reveals smile statue]
Maurice Conchis: The Smile.

- Anthony Quinn (as Maurice Conchis) in The Magus (1968)

Maurice Conchis: All men feel the need to risk death at least once in their life. War is a very unscientific answer to that need.

- Anthony Quinn (as Maurice Conchis) in The Magus (1968)

Meli: [splashed by boy in pool] Ah, I think when I marry I shall pray for daughters. And You?
Nicholas Urfe: I'll just pray for myself.

- Michael Caine (as Nicholas Urfe) in The Magus (1968)

[Nicholas hands a book to Conchis]
Nicholas Urfe: I came to return this.
Maurice Conchis: You came here to meet me. Please, life is short. My name is Conchis.
Nicholas Urfe: My name is Urfe. From the school. I find life long.

- Michael Caine (as Nicholas Urfe) in The Magus (1968)