- Captain Ivan Gottschalk: Tony's plan is...
- Max Pomeroy: Imaginative? Baroque? Intriguing?
- Captain Ivan Gottschalk: Damn risky.
- Albie Allikolos: A great wine--the best thing in life.
- [looks at girlfriend]
- Albie Allikolos: The _second_ best thing in life.
- Albie Allikolos: [learning his girlfriend betrayed him] My grandfather used to say, "'A man grows through pain." I just grew.
- Albie Allikolos: You going to a lot of trouble.
- Anthony Blake: Well, it helps to fill those empty evenings.
- Albie Allikolos: [to Tony] The only trouble with you is you don't like anybody to say thank you. But I'm a sentimental Greek. When I have something to say, I say it. Thank you.
- Orin Connover: That's, uh, very interesting. As fantasies go.
- Anthony Blake: Yes. Well, of course, I deal in fantasy. And there is one great advantage in that. The people that you meet.
- Susanna: Do you have to kill Blake?
- Orin Connover: I have an obsession with protecting all of us, and the answer is yes, I do have to kill Blake.