- Charlie Paradise: Have you ever noticed how a "No" in French sounds better than a "Yes" in any other language?
- Oliver Weems: I'm Oliver Weems. This is Gloria.
- Charlie Paradise: Gloria Weems?
- Gloria: Gloria... something else.
- Oliver Weems: I've always wanted to meet one of those eccentric painters.
- Charlie Paradise: Are you interested in his paintings, Mr. Weems, or in his state of mind?
- Charlie Paradise: You know what Flute was getting at, what his paintings meant.
- Plotkin: Aren't they obvious? He was a surrealist, expressing his imagination without any conscience control, flinging his fantasies onto the canvas in a desperate attempt to astound himself.
- Charlie Paradise: What was his fantasy? What did he see?
- Plotkin: Inversion! Nature in reverse. Dead things alive; living things dead.
- [last lines]
- Roy Brenner: Thanks, Charlie. I never would have figured that out in a million years.
- Charlie Paradise: You big city cops. I told you, Roy, Greenwich Village is a small town.
- Roy Brenner: It's lucky I know the mayor. Thanks, Charlie.