Gary Lockwood: Eric Jason

Quotes 

• Eric Jason : Where's the beach portable?

  Kathy Richards : That wigwam with a peppermint stripe?

  Eric Jason : The record player!

  Kathy Richards : It's with the scuba equipment.

• [Eric has discovered that a clerk is really a great jazz pianist thought to have died in a train wreck thirty years before] 

  Pinky Hamilton : If you tell another soul, I shall sue you for defamation of character, for slander and libel and I shall take away your last penny and possession. You have heard my last word. Watch it!

  Eric Jason : I have the perfect defense, Mr. Winters.

  Pinky Hamilton : And that is what?

  Eric Jason : Your photograph... and it says your name is Pinky Hamilton. As a matter of fact, it looks exactly like you. Oh, don't take it too hard, Mr. Winters. Like I told you, it's money in the bank. You can quit that little old desk job, buy a sloop and follow the sun!

• Eric Jason : The way he talks - sometimes I get the sneaky feeling he just wants to be friendly.

  Pinky Hamilton : Boy, I can tell you weren't raised in Chicago.

  Eric Jason : But he acts like he's lonesome, like a Civil War veteran when they're all dying out.

  Pinky Hamilton : You're sayin' after a guy knocks off all his buddies, he's gotta turn to his enemies for company.

  Eric Jason : Don't knock it, Pinky. Let's hope it's so.