- Detective: [Reading police report] "Assailant continued to beat victim after all resistance had ceased, continued in fact until some time after death." This guy enjoyed it!
- Mrs. Gerhardt: Cigars! Restaurants! Makes me laugh the way you think you're going to fool somebody.
- Doug Gerhardt: What's the matter, ma? Can't you stand me having a good time? You had your good times. You remember that, don't you?
- Mrs. Gerhardt: You're getting awful excited, Doug. Feel alright?
- Doug Gerhardt: Don't you start that again. Now you took five years out of my life with your ink blots and your clinics. So don't you get that anxious look back on your face, 'cause I know what it means.