- Dylan Massett: [about Norman] I found him in the basement with a dead pigeon.
- Norma Louise Bates: That's nothing new for Norman. There's always something dead in the basement.
- James Finnigan: Norman, why do you care so much who your mother might be sleeping with? What does it mean? That she could be attracted to someone? Does that take her away from you? Norman, do *you* want to sleep with her?