“Humans avoid the deep Kalahari like the plague because man must have water to live.”
Paddy O'Byrne - Narrator

“Where any other person would die of thirst in a few days, they live quite contentedly in this desert that doesn't look like a desert. They know where to dig for roots and bugs and tubers, and which berries and pods are good to eat. And of course they know what to do about water.”

Paddy O'Byrne - Narrator

“- Jim Parker: Isn't that - water up ahead?
- David Herdeg: No. This is a desert. And that's a mirage.
- Jim Parker: How much longer you think this mirage is gonna last?”

Bobby Di Cicco - Jim Parker
Michael Paré - David Herdeg

“We pass a damn gas station every hundred yards for a thousand miles, but when you really need one, you end up walking your ass off. This is no way to run a desert!”
Chevy Chase - Clark Griswold

“- Oscar Madison: I think I figured out where we are.
- Felix Ungar: Where?
- Oscar Madison: In a Clint Eastwood movie.”

Walter Matthau - Oscar Madison
Jack Lemmon - Felix Ungar