- Ed Blumquist: And I can't stop thinking about that book. Noreen's book. It's, like, stuck in my head.
- Lou Solverson: What? What book?
- Ed Blumquist: It's about this guy who, every day, he... he pushes this rock up this hill. Like a boulder. And then every night, it just rolls back down. But he doesn't stop. You know, he just... he keeps goin'. And he wakes up every day and starts pushin'. By which I guess I'm sayin', it doesn't matter what they throw at me. I'm gonna take care of what's mine. And...
- Lou Solverson: These boys aren't gonna rest until you're dead, son. Possibly Peggy, too.
- Ed Blumquist: I want a lawyer.
- Hank Larsson: My question for you is, how come after you hit that fella, you didn't just drive to the hospital or waved down a passin' motorist and ask 'em to call the cops?
- Peggy Blumquist: You say it like these things happen in a vacuum. Like it's a test. Check "A" or "B." But it's like... decisions you make in a dream, ya know?
- Dodd Gerhardt: [to Simone] A whore's life is five good years, five bad years, and then some half-dick sweat stain grinds you out like a cigarette. Like a goddamn spent cigarette.
- Karl Weathers: [Drunk] You hear that, Sonny? There's a crisis at the highest level, so who do they call? The best lawyer in town.
- Sonny Greer: Aren't ya the only lawyer in town, Karl?
- Floyd Gerhardt: And you... while he's seeing to the boy, you take care of this butcher. He doesn't live through the night.
- Dodd Gerhardt: Already dead, believe me. He just doesn't know it.
- Peggy Blumquist: I'll tell you what, if it was me, and we had to run... I wouldn't look back. For what? The dazzle? This house? This is Ed's house. He grew up here. His mom washin' his undies, his father takin' his paper to the commode. You ask me how come I buy all these magazines? I'm livin' in a museum of the past.