- Deadpan: You're so damned happy in your safe little circle. Do you know where you'll be thirty years from now? Exercising...
- [begins snapping fingers]
- Deadpan: ... bargain hunting, 3-D TV in your back-pack jet. You'll have a boss on your neck, kids at your feet, head deep in debt, can't get to sleep. Cause you'll be thinking back to now, going, "I remember then...", but you don't, you missed it, and you'll miss it again. So when you're lying there crying out... "Where is enlightenment?" Just remember how... I told you now; it's in the sound... of one hand.
- [fingersnap flourish]
- Bridey: Did you hear an airliner just crossed the Atlantic? Flying saucers all over the place... And here we sit, grounded in gravity.
- Chester: [after paying Auggie, who is blackmailing him] You know, Auggie, times are changing. Nowadays I don't know how many people who'd care too much that I knew a few communists... once.
- Auggie: It can still get you black-listed. Fired. Never hired again. No place to go. The FBI is everywhere. You're an enemy of the state, Chester. You're anti-American.
- Chester: [addressing his company's sales representatives] I have a philosophy when dealing with retailers in today's competitive marketplace. And I'm willing to bet that the big boys on Madison Avenue also know these three very simple laws: Everyone wants to buy a friend. Everyone needs to hear himself talk. And, everyone loves a sucker.
- Chester: [continues] When I approach a customer, I am the sucker.