- [Ned is getting the arson set-up from Teddy]
- Teddy Lewis: Hey now, I want to ask you something. Are you listening to me, asshole? Because, I like you. I got a serious question for you: What the fuck are you doing? This is not shit for you to be messin' with. Are you ready to hear something? I want you to see if this sounds familiar: any time you try a decent crime, you got fifty ways you're gonna fuck up. If you think of twenty-five of them, then you're a genius - and you ain't no genius. You remember who told me that?
- [Ned nods, "yes"]
- Miles Hardin: [to the other participants in a meeting concerning Edmund Walker's will] Would anybody mind if I smoked?
- [Immediately, everyone else in the meeting except for Peter Lowenstein lights up a cigarette or other tobacco product]
- Peter: [after one of the other participants offers him a cigarette] No, I don't need my own, I'll just breathe the air.
- Peter: I'm really disappointed in you, Racine. I've been living vicariously off of you for years. You shut up on me now, all I have is my wife.
- Oscar: Ned, you've messed up before and you'll mess up again. It's your nature. But they've always been small-time. But, this might not be. She's trouble, Ned. The real thing. Big-time, major league trouble. Watch yourself.
- Peter: Little Heather goes out on the porch, and there's this dude with her Aunt, see? And the guy is turned around with his pants or shorts or whatever dropped, so he's mooning the little girl, right. And he and your friend are going at something that Heather can't quite figure out - which sounds suspiciously, to me, like oral-genital contact - which I'm proud to say is no longer illegal in this state. And the guy turns around to Heather - you follow me so far? Guess what he looks like?
- Ned: I don't. know.
- Peter: Well, he looks about seven or eight inches long, shiny, and very, very bald.
- [laughs]
- Peter: Poor little Heather. She'd never seen one angry before. It made quite an impression on her. Yessiree. It's the only thing she can remember about the guy.
- Edmund Walker: The guy came to us with a business proposition. We're always looking for opportunities, if the conditions are right. We're willing to take an occasional risk, if the downside isn't too steep. But this guy hadn't done his homework, he didn't know the bottom line. That's how I knew he was full of shit. You've got to know the bottom line. That's all that really counts. He didn't have the goods, this guy. He was like a lot of guys you run into - they want to get rich, they want to do it quick, they want to be there with one score. But they're not willing to do what's necessary. Do you know what I mean?
- Ned: I'm not sure. You mean, do the groundwork? Earn it?
- Edmund Walker: No. No, I mean do what's necessary. Whatever's necessary.
- Ned: Yeah. I know that kind of guy. I hate that. It makes me sick.
- Edmund Walker: Me too.
- Ned: I'm a lot like that.
- Ned: Don't you understand? That was her special gift. She was relentless. Matty was the kind of person who could do what was necessary. Whatever was necessary.
- Judge: Mr. Racine, the next time you come into my courtroom I hope you've got either a better defense, or a better class of client.
- Peter: He's an unhappy man. He thinks he should be in Circuit Court by now. Here he is in a state with really top-notch corruption and he's stuck with the county toilets. I'm surprised you weren't in on that toilet caper.
- Oscar: We've got more of everything bad since the wave started. It's the crisis atmosphere, you know. People dress different, feel different, sweat more, wake up cranky and they never recover. Look at Lowenstein. Everyhing is just a little askew. Pretty soon people think the old rules aren't in effect. They start breaking them. Figure no one'll care, cause it's emergency time. Time out.
- Ned: No matter what it is, we're gonna be satisfied. We're not gonna get greedy. If we do, we'll get burned.
- [first lines]
- Angela: My God, it's hot. I stepped out of the shower and stared sweating again. It's still burning?
- Peter: I know, I know - you finally got to Glenda. How was it? Did she let you into the no parking zone?
- Edmund Walker: That's the way of the world. Most people despise their jobs.
- Ned: Do you?
- Edmund Walker: No. I love it. But it's not a job.
- Ned: What is it, exactly?
- Edmund Walker: Various things. This and that. Here and there.
- Matty: Edmund's company owns The Breakers.
- Ned: Really?
- Edmund Walker: It's not that simple, really. We have an interest in a few places along the shore. For the land. You know. Someday. Don't try to explain that to her.
- Matty: I'm too dumb. A woman, you know. Well, I'll be right back. Then, maybe we can talk about pantyhose or something interesting.
- Matty: I'm afraid; because, when I think about it, I wish that he'd die. That's really what I want. It's horrible and ugly and It's what I most want.
- Ned: That's where we're at, isn't it?
- Matty: What do you mean?
- Ned: That's what we're both thinking - how good it'd be for us if he were gone. It'd be real sweet for us.
- Matty: No, Ned, please don't talk about it. Talk is dangerous. Sometimes it makes things happen, it makes it real.
- Edmund Walker: I figured an honest lawyer doesn't make much and the other kind was too slimy for me. Now, I'd rather be upfront about shafting somebody.
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