- Art Donovan: You really look beat, Lou.
- Lou Grant: I should be. I haven't slept in three nights. There's this bird in a tree outside my window.
- Art Donovan: What kind of a bird?
- Lou Grant: Inconsiderate.
- Art Donovan: Mrs. Pynchon is very interested in endangered species.
- Lou Grant: Yeah, that's why she owns a newspaper.
- Lou Grant: [to Billie] I was gonna send you out, but since your hair is wet, I won't. I don't wanna give the paper a bad name.
- Lou Grant: Listen Pearson, I realize that you'd love a paper that's nothing but advertising from front to back. But every once in a while I get a crazy whim, to stick in a story here and there.