- Detective Lt. Mike Stone: [Identifying the body] That's Llewellyn. Looks like Groat used his Golden Rule before he could.
- Inspector Steve Keller: Which one is that?
- Detective Lt. Mike Stone: Do unto others before they do unto you.
- Mary Rae Dortmunder: [a quotation from "The Little Prince" written on her classroom's blackboard] And the little prince replied, it is so good to have a friend, even if one was about to die. I, for instance, am very glad to have had a fox as a friend.
- Detective Lt. Mike Stone: [to Groat] You were here, too, huh? The three of you. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
- Mr. Llewellyn: Lieutenant? Are you finished? Are you through playing "Taps" for Frankie? And if you are, maybe you can find your way off this boat and back to your car?
- Detective Lt. Mike Stone: No, I've got a couple minutes left on the meter. And I want you to understand that if you lay a hand on Roy Chaffee, I'm gonna have your arm up to the elbow.
- Inspector Steve Keller: [On stakeout, discussing hitman Art Styles] He's with a girl. Mary Rae Dortmunder.
- Detective Lt. Mike Stone: Mary Rae Dortmunder? That's a crummy name for a go-go dancer.
- Inspector Steve Keller: She's a teacher. Schoolteacher.
- Detective Lt. Mike Stone: Well, that's better. Mary Rae Dortmunder. Now that's a good name for a schoolteacher.
- Mary Rae Dortmunder: Saint-Exupery wasn't only a children's writer; he was a pilot, and an adventurer, and a romantic. "The Little Prince" is about humanity... and love.
- Art Styles: Mary Rae, where do you live?
- Mary Rae Dortmunder: I'm not sure I follow.
- Art Styles: I mean, you're talkin' about Byron - Lord Byron - and those sisters.
- Mary Rae Dortmunder: The Brontes.
- Art Styles: All that fairyland thing. I mean, you live out here somewhere, where the wallpaper never warps, the toilets don't back up.
- Mary Rae Dortmunder: Well, I just talk about what I believe, I guess.
- Art Styles: Do you really know any people like you talk about? I mean here and now, on this planet, in this city.
- Mary Rae Dortmunder: There are people who think the way I do.
- Art Styles: Who? Teachers?
- Mary Rae Dortmunder: There's a story by Ernest Hemingway...
- Art Styles: Stories. What's this with stories? Does nothing real ever happen to you?
- Mary Rae Dortmunder: It's called "The Killers." It's about a man named Swede. He's being chased by killers. He's running... the way you're running from the police.