- Al Weiner: *Jesus*, what happened to you?
- Edgar Allan: Somebody tried to kill me.
- Al Weiner: Now who would want to kill a talented kid like you?
- [last lines]
- Edgar Allan: [Having mentored an aspiring actress named Holly throughout the film] Hollywood. or Holly would.
- [first lines]
- Edgar Allan: [Thinks while typing at typewriter] Dear Mr. Weiner, Just a quick note to tell you that the killer is approaching me from behind and, by the time you read this I may very well be dead. It's all because of my screenplay! I'll try to explain as quickly as possible. It all started a short time ago when I first arrived here in... Hollywood.
- Lot: [Plays the first few notes of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in d minor on electric guitar] Go back, brother! This is no place for good souls.
- [strikes a chord]
- Lot: Hollywood is the land of the doomed.
- [strikes another chord]
- Lot: Those who come to live here die. Go back, brother, I beg you. A thousand avenging angels of the lord will destroy you with their flaming swords.
- [strikes a final series of dramatic chords]