- Cesar Boyd: All right, I'm a liar. I made the entire thing up from beginning to end. Are you satisfied? Caesar Boyd confesses. Please stay.
- Greg Bachmann: I would rather die.
- Cesar Boyd: Greg, don't act as though you didn't know the facts of life. This is how it's always been. Lies, lies, lies. We newspapermen live by lies. A lie is nothing but a journalist's trademark. That's what sells newspapers.
- Greg Bachmann: In the life of everyman they say there's a turning point. Last night I decided to finish you once and for all, but I'm afraid I exaggerated your importance. There will always be people like you, cheating, lying. Today it's the great Caesar Boyd, tomorrow the government, and some soap manufacturer. But they're not using me.
- Cesar Boyd: We newspapermen live by lies. A lie is nothing but a journalist's trademark. That's what sells newspapers.