- Gus Murray: I just hope everybody understands one thing: if it keeps going like it is, nobody is gonna make it through, not even the paper itself. This could be the one that sinks the Trib.
- Billie Newman: [the Newspaper workers are on strike] Oh, didn't you here? Ivey took another job.
- Art Donovan: She what? Where?
- Billie Newman: Long Beach paper.
- Art Donovan: And she wanted to nail Adam Wilson. I'd like to nail her ample behind.
- Charlie Hume: [Charlie is shaving in the Tribune bathroom when Lou comes in] Hey, how do you feel?
- Lou Grant: They haven't invented the term.