- Patrick Styvesant: See, I'm supposed to know what a clever son of a bitch this guy is, while he's jerking me around.
- Gil: He's showing off. That's the last thing he'll do before he gets sloppy. We wait.
- Patrick Styvesant: And what if he kills someone else while we do?
- Dorothy, Traffic Officer: I fish most week-ends, you know. And it's getting so I don't want to come back.
- Glenn Taylor: This is a small and rather conventional town. It pays to be careful about friendships.
- Patrick Styvesant: Yeah. Yeah, it does... But then a man with no friends at all...
- Glenn Taylor: It gets lonely. Not that isolation in itself would make you pick a friend. It has to be someone particular. Someone like that.
- Patrick Styvesant: Yeah, it does.
- Glenn Taylor: I feel I should point out here that you are quite a remarkable man.
- Patrick Styvesant: Yeah.
- Patrick Styvesant: [grins, laughs]