- Max Gates: I don't like talkin' to you, Carver.
- Jim Carter: But I met a friend of yours the other night who liked to talking to me, 'bout you.
- Max Gates: Yeah? Who?
- Jim Carter: An old flame of yours, Gladys Vern.
- Max Gates: And?
- Jim Carter: And she was so full of martinis that every time she swallowed an olive, it had to wait for high tide to get past her floating rib.
- Frank: [to Louie, commenting about Jim Carver] The only news guy I ever met that's right. He prints what he finds out by himself. Never spills anything you tell him.
- Jim Carter: You got the jitters?
- Laurie Ogden: Jitters? Working for Morella's like being in an airplane without a parachute- *and* without an airplane.