- Detective Robert Goren: You're a fake. A hack...
- Lionel Shill: And you're being hyperbolic, detective.
- Detective Robert Goren: [shouting] I'm not done!
- Detective Robert Goren: [up-ends a soft drink can, from which a marijuana cigarette falls] You've got roaches.
- Lionel Shill: [referring to Gareth Sage] A snake of a man.
- Detective Robert Goren: A snake? So he's an agent.
- Captain Danny Ross: He still drive a Jag?
- Detective Alexandra Eames: A new one every three years. Just like his harassment lawsuits.
- Gareth Sage: The day they let agents choose who's gonna review the books is the day even *I* think the business is too sleazy.
- Detective Robert Goren: You killed Kira to save your legacy!
- Lionel Shill: What legacy? My last novel sold less than a thousand copies!
- Detective Robert Goren: [waving one hand tauntingly in TJ Hawkins's face] Sorry about the flies, they're all over the place.