- Philip Cagle: [encountering Cummins as he has just been released from jail for vagrancy] Better out here, isn't it?
- David Cummins: You paid my fine.
- Philip Cagle: You're abrupt, Mr. Cummins, but true.
- David Cummins: Is there any reason I should thank you?
- Philip Cagle: I talk better over a cup of coffee, how 'bout you?
- David Cummins: That depends on what I have to talk about.
- Philip Cagle: I paid fifty dollars to get you out here, the least you can do is let me tell you why I did it.
- Philip Cagle: Fifty dollars for me? Inflation's here to stay.
- [gets into the car]
- David Cummins: I've got a lot of curiosity.
- Philip Cagle: You know what that is to the cat, don't you?
- David Cummins: Meow.