- Mrs. Pynchon: [cheerful] Would anybody like some juice?
- Charlie Hume: [off screen] Not me, thank you.
- Lou Grant: It's a little early for juice.
- [Mrs. Pynchon laughs]
- Billie Newman: What'd you tell 'em?
- Rick Henshaw: I told 'em to kiss off!
- [Billie giggles]
- Rick Henshaw: But not in those words.
- Billie Newman: [about Suave Magazine's Mascot of the Month] It's all fantasy, isn't it? To think that you can live forever in one perfect photograph.
- Art Donovan: [taking the magazine from Animal] And that is a perfect photograph. This is the kind of magazine Mrs. Pynchon ought to buy instead of 'Lively Arts'.
- Lou Grant: Donovan, take over the desk.
- Art Donovan: You're chair is too high. And you never have enough pencils.
- Lou Grant: Yeah. Well don't swivel it down like you did the last time so that my nose was resting on the desk. You use your own chair.
- Joe Rossi: If Donovan's city editor, who's the assistant?
- Lou Grant: You want it, you got it.
- Joe Rossi: I didn't say I wanted it.
- Art Donovan: [sitting down in Lou's chair] Don't let the power go to your head.
- Mrs. Pynchon: [recovering from her stroke, Mrs. Pynchon speaks with difficulty] You... have... totally... mishandled the pension funds story.
- Lou Grant: It's nice to hear you say that, Mrs. Pynchon.
- Charlie Hume: Very nice.