- Lou Grant: [Lou's nightside replacement Kendall is running late again] His excuses depress me! The one I hate most is about 'how bad the traffic was coming back from the beach'.
- Lou Grant: [Billie is gesturing to Lou while he's on the phone] Listen, Marcel Marceau is giving a command performance here, and I gotta go.
- Billie Newman: I didn't mean for you to hang up.
- Lou Grant: [eagerly] Did you bring me dinner?
- Billie Newman: No, I'm sorry, Lou, was I supposed to?
- Lou Grant: [speaking to Mrs. Pynchon on phone] We thought you were out gambling.
- Mrs. Pynchon: [at home in bed] Owning a newspaper's all the gamblin I need to do.
- Lou Grant: Boy, Hal, you sure are a mean one. What kind of a preacher are you?
- Hal Hennecker: Terrible.