- Lou Grant: [a young kid is reading Playboy magazine at a newstand with a friend looking over his shoulder] Hey you! You old enough to be looking at that?
- Kid: Yeah...
- Lou Grant: Put it back.
- Kid: I'm eighteen!
- Lou Grant: [grabs the magazine] You gotta be 42 to look at that.
- [thumbs through the magazine as the kids leave]
- Lou Grant: Make that 52...
- Dennis "Animal" Price: [about Earls art] Blows your mind, huh?
- Mrs. Pynchon: I don't know if I would use those words, Dennis, but yes, it blows my mind...
- Lou Grant: [Earl is threatening to put a knife in a Botticelli painting] Look at her, Earl, she's beautiful. You couldn't hurt her. Th-think of the man who painted her. That's his feelings up there.
- Earl Humphrey: That man's long gone dead.
- Lou Grant: But, the picture's still alive, though. Huh? The, the man is dust, but the picture is as alive today as the day he painted it.
- Dennis "Animal" Price: When are you gonna start using these canvases?
- Earl Humphrey: [looks around the empty room] Soon as I use up these walls.