- Sam McCloud: Mrs. White, the longer it takes us to find your son, the harder it'll go for him.
- Ernistine White: When has it been easy?
- Bartender: [about Bubba] He bounced those two guys off the walls like they were paper dolls. Would've been great to watch if they hadn't been my walls.
- Sam McCloud: Yeah, well, you're not exactly listed in the phone book as a tourist attraction, Mr. Faraday, you know, I wouldn't have found you myself except we got a nice fat file on you.
- Joey Martin: [a little kid playing with a set of keys is eyeing McCloud] Hey. That a real six gun?
- Sam McCloud: Yeah. That a real set of car keys?
- Joey Martin: I refuse to answer on grounds that incriminates and degrades me.
- Sam McCloud: [smiling] You're a real New Yorker, ain't ya?
- Charles 'Bubba' White: I got a suite at St. Richard.
- Jackie Dawn: Oh, the St. Richard no less. What are you, some kind of sloppy tycoon?
- Charles 'Bubba' White: I'm not so sloppy.
- Jack Faraday: I'll tell you something 'bout a place like this: you come in here once or twice and all the losers out of the woodwork wanna be your brother.
- Sam McCloud: It's just that I'm overly interested in these New York detective things. These crimes of purple passion, axe murders and things like that, they - they fascinate me, I love 'em.