- Clarence Carnes: [Runs past Stroud's cell and sees him standing passively, when the doors to D-Block's cells are opened during the 1946 escape attempt. He runs back] Come on! You're free!
- Robert Stroud: [calmly] I'm not going anywhere.
- Clarence Carnes: Come on man, let's go!
- Robert Stroud: Guys like them boys do things the hard way, don't they?
- [sits down on his bunk and picks up the book he'd been reading before the commotion began]
- Robert Stroud: They'll be dead before sundown; and a lot of other poor, ignorant fools with them. Maybe you too, son.
- Clarence Carnes: But... You're in this cell for life.
- Robert Stroud: You're an Indian, aren't you? I know how you feel about being free. But let me tell you something: there's one worse than doing life, and that's no life at all. Think about that.
- Clarence Carnes: [Looks at Stroud who's resumed reading and then runs back along the D-Block walkway] Come on! Everybody out!