- E.R. doctor: [talking to the duty nurse] You know how much coffee I've had today? 17 cups. The Brazilians ought to give me a medal.
- Police Photographer: [Referring to photographing the dead body] How about one with the sheet off, Lieutenant? Just one, that's all.
- Police Lt. Frank Kafka: Not a chance!
- Police Photographer: Why not? What's the matter?
- Police Lt. Frank Kafka: Listen, food's too expensive to spoil people's appetite for breakfast. I wouldn't want a dead girl on my front page.
- Police Photographer: You've got one anyway.
- Police Lt. Frank Kafka: I don't like dead girls on the front page or anywhere else.
- Police Sgt. Joe Ferris: [Interjecting] Should've been with me last night. You wouldn't have liked a couple of live ones. I had a lot of trouble last night.
- Police Sgt. Joe Ferris: No word from the boyfriend yet.
- Police Lt. Frank Kafka: He'll probably turn up as soon as he reads the papers. From what I know about musicians, they're not that neat when they decide to get rid of their dames.
- Police Insp. Anderson: [noticing that curious onlookers are sticking their heads out of nearby windows] You know, some solid citizens are gonna' get their brains blown out if they don't pull their heads in... not that they got any brains to begin with.
- Police Lt. Frank Kafka: Why don't you tell 'em?
- Police Insp. Anderson: I'm waiting for the sound truck...
- Police Insp. Anderson: [Sound truck has arrived, Anderson comes over the loudspeakers] This is Inspector Anderson speaking. Will the people please get their heads out of their windows? I repeat: get your heads out of the windows. There may be shooting here!
- Police Lt. Frank Kafka: Maybe he wanted to stop himself for years. Maybe nobody else paid any attention either.
- Mr. Liddell: I had a feeling this meeting would come down to psychiatric mumbo jumbo and I wasn't wrong. It has. So we're right back where we started. There's a crazy man loose on the streets and he police are too busy passing the buck to catch him.
- Boy on Roof: I know where ther's plenty of guns. And plenty of bullets, too. You think there's only one guy in this town who doesn't like people? There's millions of 'em. And I know who they are. They can get me all the guns and bullets I want. You can't kick me around.
- Police Lt. Frank Kafka: Food's too expensive to spoil people's appetite at breakfast. I wouldn't want a dead girl on my front page.
- Mr. Harper: What is this you think. Who cares what you think? The important thing to think about is three dead women, not coddling the man who killed them.
- Landlady: I do think mothers should teach boys to cook just as well as girls.
- Edward Miller: [seething] My mother never taught me anything!