- Mike Hammer: [upon finding a mime dead in a car trunk] People in show business like to say they were born in a trunk; this is one clown who died in one.
- Mike Hammer: He has a problem with gambling?
- Jack Bergan: Gambling *is* the problem. He'd lay odds on what time the sun would come up.
- [laughs]
- Jack Bergan: I can sell about anything you want. I could even sell a one-legged unicyclist. I could sell you. What is it you do best?
- Mike Hammer: Survive.
- Jack Bergan: I could sell it.