- Higgins: If you're going to drink yourself into a stupor wouldn't whiskey be more effective?
- Thomas Sullivan Magnum, IV: Too hard to keep an even buzz on with whiskey.
- Higgins: [on the difference between hallucination and delusion] If Magnum thinks he saw Mac and no one was there, he suffered an hallucination. If someone was there and Magnum thought that person was Mac, he's had a delusion.
- Thomas Sullivan Magnum, IV: Whadya do for a living? Rip off the Navy Relief Fund? Hold high-stakes poker games and leave guys like me holding the bag?
- Jim Bonig: I took the bag.
- Thomas Sullivan Magnum, IV: You know what I mean!