- Holly Tremaine: What do you do for a living?
- Paul Desmond: I deal with the dead.
- Holly Tremaine: Oh. Of course, well, that's nice, uh, that you do that. I mean, where would we be if there were no morticians? All those bodies just piling up all over the place. I mean, somebody has to bury people when they die; otherwise where would all us livers be? Well, you know what I mean.
- Paul Desmond: Has it ever occurred to you that the dead outnumber the living by a million to one? And if they ever rose up against the living...
- Holly Tremaine: Uh, no, no, that, that can't happen. I really haven't given it much thought, Mr. Desmond.
- Holly Tremaine: [Writing in a notebook, "DRACULA LIVES"] Y'know, this story is gonna make Watergate seem like a dimestore heist.