- Michael Morrell: One of the basic rules of chess is that the king rarely moves.
- Valerie Stanton: That's why so few women play it.
- Valerie Stanton: Gordon's the perfect host. He wants to make you feel at home... and wishes you were.
- Valerie Stanton: You'd better have some food. You're going to need all your strength to answer my questions.
- Mr. Crouch: Oh, thank you, but I'm on the nine-day diet.
- Valerie Stanton: Oh, are you? What day is this?
- Mr. Crouch: Wednesday.
- Michael Morrell: Do you mind not calling me 'darling?' You toss affection around as though it were in mass production.
- Valerie Stanton: And you prefer individual attention?
- Michael Morrell: Yes
- Jeff Trent: I'll give you the lead in tomorrow's column.
- Marian Webster: Thanks, I'll settle for a drink.
- Valerie Stanton: I've already told him!
- Gordon Dunning: But not what I'll tell him! I'll tell him things that'll make want to wash his hands every time he touches you! And what I don't know I'll invent! I think I'll go now, while I'm in the mood.
- Michael Morrell: [having feigned ignorance of Valerie's stardom, and compared her continual wearing of hand gloves to that of a fighter] Do you like Boxing?
- Valerie Stanton: I have never been so tempted to try it.