- Andy Travis: She sure was a looker.
- Les Nessman: [shocked] What?
- Andy Travis: I meant she's good-looking.
- Andy Travis: Herbert, I don't need a computerized dating service to meet girls. I meet 'em the old-fashioned way. I pick 'em up in bars.
- Jennifer Marlowe: Maybe I won't have to tell him. Maybe he figured it out all by himself. No...
- Bailey Quarters: [optimistical dreamer] Maybe Les is the man who will turn this girl around and make her leave that sordid life forever.
- Jennifer Marlowe: Bailey. What movie did you and Johnny see the other night?
- Bailey Quarters: Cinderella.
- [big smile]
- Bailey Quarters: [Jennifer's about to tell Les his girlfriend's a prostitute] Oh! Time for lunch!
- [about to flee office]
- Les Nessman: It's ten-thirty.
- Bailey Quarters: So it is. And what a shame, too late for breakfast.
- [chuckles]
- Bailey Quarters: Maybe I'll just go back there and brush my teeth. Yeah!
- [rushes off to ladies' room]
- Jennifer Marlowe: Have a seat.
- Les Nessman: I don't wanna sit.
- Jennifer Marlowe: Sit down!
- Les Nessman: Okay.
- [obeys sullenly]
- Jennifer Marlowe: I wanted to talk to you.
- Les Nessman: Okay.
- Jennifer Marlowe: Les... I want to explain the facts of life to you.
- Les Nessman: You're too late, Jennifer. Mother gave me a book.
- Jennifer Marlowe: Les, the world is full of men and women...
- Les Nessman: Chapter One!
- Jennifer Marlowe: Now, when men and women fall in love, why, there's nothing more splendid. It's like...
- Les Nessman: A news scoop?
- Jennifer Marlowe: Better than that. Les... Relationships don't happen every day. You have to wait for them. But... just because you think you have a relationship that you really don't have, doesn't mean that you're not worthy of having one if It's real. Said another way...
- Les Nessman: I... I... are you trying to tell me that I'm not worthy of Lorraine?