- Myra: Are you OK? Do you want something?
- Harry Stoner: Yes. I want that girl in a Cole Porter song. I wanna see Lena Horne at the Cotton Club - hear Billie Holiday sing fine and mellow - walk in that kind of rain that never washes perfume away. I wanna be in love with something. Anything. Just the idea. A dog, a cat. Anything. Just something.
- Harry Stoner: Everybody misses.
- Margo: Not professionals.
- Harry Stoner: Oh yeah, professionals too. Quarterbacks get knocked down, nurses get knocked up, somebody invented the Edsel. Everybody misses.
- Fred Mirrell: Harry, it's all those goddamn operations, the woman's all scarred up. I need these little diversions.
- [Referring to the arsonist and the hooker]
- Phil Greene: Professionals, Charlie and Margo. One starts the fires, the other one puts them out.
- Harry Stoner: We got a movie we've gotta see.
- Sid Fivush: Movie? They ain't made a good movie in thirty years.
- Myra: Hey, come down, come down.
- Harry Stoner: What down? I am, I am coming down. I'm coming down the mountain. Kid, I've got the tablets. I've got the 11th commandment!
- [laughs]
- Myra: What does it say?
- Harry Stoner: Huh? Oh, "No parking on this side of the street."