- Detective Lt. Mike Stone: [Admiring a Mattisse print on Gilliam's wall] It's framed beautifully. Yeah, they all are.
- Amory Gilliam: I have them custom-made to complement each particular piece.
- Detective Lt. Mike Stone: Who does the work for you?
- Amory Gilliam: Various people. But why do you ask, Lieutenant? Are you planning on having someone framed?
- [last lines]
- Toni Craig: He said this was gonna be our private tower just like the one the poet built in Big Sur.
- Detective Lt. Mike Stone: Poet?
- Inspector Steve Keller: Robinson Jeffers. He built his own place out of rocks, called it a "Tower Beyond Tragedy."
- Detective Lt. Mike Stone: I'd call him a dreamer. Man hasn't come up with a place that safe yet.
- Toni Craig: Some men keep trying.
- [Lt. Stone shrugs]
- Toni Craig: Thank you.
- [She gets in the car and they all drive off]
- Amory Gilliam: We belong, Kim, together. Here or some place like this. Have you ever been to the Tower?
- Toni Craig: What tower?
- Amory Gilliam: Robinson Jeffers' tower. Down the coast, south of here, near Big Sur. It's a fortress against the world.
- Toni Craig: Who is he?
- Amory Gilliam: A poet.
- Toni Craig: And he built his own home?
- Amory Gilliam: Yes. With his own hands. Stone by stone.
- Toni Craig: What does he write about?
- Amory Gilliam: The sea. Nature. Man's failure. Violence. Wildness. The power of passion. Love.
- Toni Craig: I'd like to read him some day.
- Amory Gilliam: I intend for you to.