ANDY: My wife used to say I'm a hard man to know. Like a closed book. Complained about it all the time. She's beautiful. God, I loved her. But I just didn't know how to show it, that's all. I killed her, Red. I didn't pull the trigger. But I drove her away. That's why she died. Because of me, the way I am.

RED: That doesn't make you a murderer. Bad husband, maybe. Felt bad about it if you want to. But you didn't pull the trigger.

ANDY: No. I didn't. Somebody else did, and I wound up in here. Bad luck, I guess.

RED: Yeah.

ANDY: It floats around. Has to land on somebody. It was my turn, that's all. I was in the path of the tornado¹. I didn't expect the storm would last as long as it has. You think you'll ever get out of here?

RED: Me? Yeah. One day when I got a long, white beard and two or three marbles rolling around upstairs. They'll let me out.

ANDY: Tell you where I'd go. Zihuatanejo.

RED: Zihua...?

ANDY: Zihuatanejo. It's in Mexico. A little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory. Open up a little hotel right on the beach. Buy some worthless old boat and fix it up new. Take my guests out charter fishing.

RED: Zihuatanejo?

ANDY: In a place like that, I could use a man that knows how to get things.

RED: I don't think I could make it on the outside, Andy. I've been in here most of my life. I'm an institutional man now. Just like Brooks² was.

ANDY: Well, you underestimate yourself.

RED: I don't think so. In here I'm the guy who can get things for you, sure, but outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. Hell, I wouldn't even know where to begin. Pacific Ocean? Shit! About to scare me to death, somethin' that big.

ANDY: Not me. I didn't shoot my wife and I didn't shoot her lover, and whatever mistakes I made I've paid for them and then some. That hotel, that boat... I don't think that's too much to ask.

RED: I don't think you ought' a be doing this to yourself, Andy! This is shitty pipe dreams! I mean Mexico's in the way the hell down there, and you're in here, and that's the way it is!

ANDY: Yeah, right. That's the way it is. It's down there, and I'm in here. I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living... or get busy dying.

妙词佳句，活学活用

1. tornado

龙卷风。这里表示“事情的旋涡”。与这个词一类的词汇有以下几个：
whirlwind 旋风
hurricane 飓风
typhoon 台风
大家不妨把这一组词放在一起比较记忆。

2. two or three marbles rolling around upstairs

意思是go crazy in brain/head。英文中有个短语lose one's marbles，意思就是 go crazy in brain/head。Red这里说two or three marbles rolling around upstairs是活用了lose one's marbles这个短语。

3. charter

“包租”的意思，既可以做动词，也可以做名词。租船，包机，包车，都可以用这个词。
如：charter flights 包机
a chartered boat 一条租来的船

4. Yellow Pages

a volume or section of a telephone directory that lists business services, or products alphabetically³ according to field. 黄页（电话）查号簿（美国按行业、职业分类的部分常用黄色纸）。

5. scare me to death

“吓得要命”的意思，和中文的表达是不是很相似？动词的过去分词+to death 表示“非常……，……要命”，例如：
I was worried to death. 我担心得要死。
I was scared to death. 我吓得要死。
I was bored to death. 无聊死了。

6. pipe dream

非常口语化的表达，意思是：（鸦片鬼的）幻想，白日做梦，想入非非的计划。
pipe有一个意思是“烟斗”，在这个词组里引申为“鸦片”或者“毒品”，这种表达很形象。比如我们可以说 Stop dreaming that pipe dream that you will become a millionaire someday without hard work!（别成天幻想着不费劲将来就能成为百万富翁！）