- Adam Lang: Spare me the bleeding-heart bullshit! Do you know what I'd do if I was in power again? I'd have two queues at airports: one for flights where we'd done no background checks, infringed on no one's civil bloody liberties, used no intelligence gained by torture. And on the other flight we'd do everything we possibly could to make it perfectly safe. And then we'd see which plane the Rycarts of this world would put their bloody kids on! And you can put that in the book!
- The Ghost: I really don't think this is a good idea.
- Richard Rycart: You have no choice.
- The Ghost: Emmett must have told Lang I've been to see him.
- Richard Rycart: So what's he going to do about it? Dump you in the ocean?
- The Ghost: Well it happened before.
- Richard Rycart: Which means it can't happen again. He can't drown two ghost writers, for God's sake. You're not kittens.
- The Ghost: Well don't tell me you're going to read it now.
- Richard Rycart: Not all of it, just the beginning. There's something very important about it.
- The Ghost: Yeah, it's the cure for insomnia.
- Amelia Bly: How's it going?
- The Ghost: [beaming] Pretty well. He keeps calling me 'man'!
- Amelia Bly: He always does that when he can't remember someone's name.
- The Ghost: You wouldn't happen to know if there are any flights leaving the airport tonight, would you?
- Motel Receptionist: Not unless you've got your own private jet.
- The Ghost: Ah, I lent it to my butler.
- Motel Receptionist: Haha, oh you Brits!
- [first lines]
- The Ghost: You realize I know nothing about politics.
- Rick Ricardelli: You voted for him, didn't you?
- The Ghost: Adam Lang? Of course I did, everyone voted for him. He wasn't a politician, he was a craze.
- Paul Emmett: I doubt it very much. The gate will open automatically. Be sure to make a right at the bottom of the drive. If you turn left, the road will take you deeper into the woods and you may never be seen again.
- The Ghost: [reading the first words of Adam Lang's manuscript] "Langs are Scottish folk originally and proud of it. Our name is a derivation of 'long', the Old English word for tall, and it is from North of the border that my forefathers hail." Fuuuck.
- Paul Emmett: [about his wall of framed photos] Oh yes, the wall of ego. We all have one, our equivalent of the dentist's fish tank.
- The Ghost: I'd never guess you smoked.
- Amelia Bly: I only allow myself one. In times of great stress or contentment.
- The Ghost: Which is this?
- Amelia Bly: Very funny.
- The Ghost: Forty thousand years of human language, and there's no word to describe our relationship. It was doomed.
- Paul Emmett: [reacting to an old picture of Lang, taken in his college days with a marijuana joint] Let's hope he didn't inhale.
- Rick Ricardelli: [after hearing the writer's been mugged] You're still okay to fly tonight?
- The Ghost: God's sake, Rick, I'm in shock.
- Rick Ricardelli: Well, here's another shock for you: for one month's work on a manuscript that's already written, Rhinehart, Inc. is willing to pay you $250,000 plus expenses. Window seat or aisle?
- Rick Ricardelli: This is a great opportunity for you. Plus the money's good, your kids won't starve.
- The Ghost: I don't have kids.
- Rick Ricardelli: I do.
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