- Frederic Hauser: All fortunes are unsavory. There's not a fortune on this earth that doesn't have a little dirt on it.
- Meyer Offerman: There's a difference between dirt and blood.
- Frederic Hauser: Not if you clean it well enough.
- Meyer Offerman: Blood always leaves a stain, my friend, whether you can see it or not.
- Meyer Offerman: [about his framed newspaper articles] I should probably take them all down. But then I would forget that I was ever good looking.