Liana Telfer: Don't fuck with me!
Dean Corso: I thought I already did.
Boris Balkan: [reciting the secret meaning of the illustrations] To travel in silence / by a long and circuitous route, / To brave the arrows of misfortune / and fear neither noose nor fire, / To play the greatest of all games / and win, foregoing no expense / is to mock the vicissitudes of Fate / and gain at last the key / that will unlock the Ninth Gate.
Dean Corso: Have you studied the engravings? They seem to have some underlying significance.
Ceniza: But of course.
[Points to an engraving in the book]
Ceniza: Here, for example. This one could be interpreted as a warning. "Venture too far," It seems to say, "and danger will descend on you from above." This type of books
often contain little puzzles. Especially in the case of such an illustrious collaborator.
Dean Corso: Collaborator?
Ceniza: You cannot have proceeded very far with your research, señor. Here, look close.
[Handles a magnifying glass to Corso]
Ceniza: Don't you see? Only six of the nine engravings were signed by Aristide
Torchia.
Dean Corso: Yes. And the other three?
Ceniza: But this is one of them.
Dean Corso: [Reads through the magnifying class] L... C... F... Who is LCF?
Ceniza: Think.
Dean Corso: [Thinks a few seconds] Lucifer?
Ceniza: Very perceptive of you, señor !
Torchia was burned alive because he wrote this book in collaboration with someone else.
Dean Corso: Come on! You can't honestly believe...
Ceniza: The man who wrote this book did so in alliance with the Devil and went to the stake for it.
[Grinning sarcastically]
Ceniza: Even Hell has its heroes, señor !
Baroness Kessler: My latest work: "The Devil: History and Myth" - a kind of biography. It will be published early next year.
Dean Corso: Why the devil?
Baroness Kessler: [laughs] I saw him one day. I was fifteen years old, and I saw him as plain as I see you now. It was love at first sight.
Dean Corso: You
know, 300 years ago, you'd have been burned at the stake for saying something like that.
Baroness Kessler: 300 years ago I wouldn't have said it!
Bernie: I already told him I had no part of this operation.
Dean Corso: Except ten percent.
Bernie: Twenty percent. The Swiss was my client.
Dean Corso: [shakes his head] No deal.
Bernie: Fifteen. For my children's sake.
Dean Corso: You don't have any children.
Bernie: I'm still young. Give me time.
Dean Corso: [expels a lungful of smoke, unmoved] Ten.
Boris Balkan: Our relations have always been strictly commercial, and that's the way I like it. The professional and the personal should be mutually exclusive.
Dean Corso: Listen, I came here to do some business, not shoot the breeze. If you want to expound your personal philosophies, write another book.
Boris Balkan: [performing the ceremony] Now you can watch! I'm entering uncharted territory. Taking the road that leads to equality, with God. You can't come with me... I must travel alone but you may look on, and marvel.
Dean Corso: That's very kind of you.
Boris Balkan: Indeed it is. There have been men who have been burned alive
or disemboweled for just a glimpse of what you are about to witness.
Boris Balkan: You must see her again.
Dean Corso: Are you kidding? Have you seen her secretary?
Boris Balkan: Try the lunch break.
Dean Corso: [pulls Liana's gun on him] Stand aside.
Boris Balkan: I credited you with more finesse.
Dean Corso: You heard me. Stand back!
Boris Balkan: Put that away. It's not your style.
[upon overpowering him and shoving him into a hole in the floor]
Boris Balkan: It seems you
found your proper niche at last... I like that.
Boris Balkan: [speaking of the engravings in 'The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows'] They form a kind of satanic riddle. Correctly interpreted with the aid of the original text and sufficient inside information, they are reputed to conjure up the Prince of Darkness in person.