- Carl Kolchak: Okay, how much is it?
- The Figure: There is no charge. A nominal contribution will be appreciated.
- [One bill is put into urn]
- The Figure: Not that nominal.
- Carl Kolchak: Did you know Mickey Patchek?
- Madame Trevi: I never met him. I wish I could say the same about you.
- Carl Kolchak: [chuckling] That's very good.
- Ron Updyke: I wonder who'd take control of the bureau.
- Carl Kolchak: Be my guest, Ron. Just remember, I like my underwear in the top drawer.
- Madame Trevi: The truly liberated woman is not afraid to be a woman. No camp, no kitsch; no... cartoon T-shirts.
- Madelaine: [about a crime scene] Why do you want to go up there?
- Carl Kolchak: Why do I want to go up there? Because it's there.
- Carl Kolchak: Those hoods have spooked my stringers. They act like I have leprosy.
- Tony Vincenzo: You'd be better off. You'd be safer in a leper colony.
- Tony Vincenzo: 'Cause you are suicidal! You are self-destructive!
- Carl Kolchak: I can't talk to you when you get emotional like this.
- Tony Vincenzo: I'm not emotional! Who's emotional!
- Griselda: Unfortunately, for those of us who are genuinely interested in the occult, witchcraft's big business.
- Carl Kolchak: Ah.
- Griselda: Big business and free speech is what this country's all about, right?
- Carl Kolchak: Well, I'll agree about free speech.
- Tony Vincenzo: Carl... you know, every year my brother-in-law asks me to come into the Venetian blind business with him. He's got a $50,000 home over in Evanston. He's got a company car. And I always say, "No, Rocco, I love the news business. It's in my blood."
- Carl Kolchak: Uh-huh.
- Tony Vincenzo: I tell you something, Carl. This is the year I'm gonna become a Venetian blind executive.
- Carl Kolchak: Tony, you got a brother-in-law named Rocco in the Venetian blind business? Hey, that's a terrific cover, Tony.
- Carl Kolchak: I've got my bell, the bear claws and the buttons. Wire! Copper wire. That's right. Witches hate copper.
- Emily Cowles: Oh. Carl.
- Carl Kolchak: Yes?
- Emily Cowles: [pointing out the office teletype machine] I merely point it out to you. I don't say "yea" or "nay."
- Madelaine: I mean, uh, oh, I could make you so important.
- Carl Kolchak: You could make me important? How? By killing off all my enemies? We'd have to buy out a controlling interest in a doll factory for that one.
- Madelaine: After modeling, I go into film, like Lauren Hutton. Maybe marry a rich Greek like Jackie, or a prince like Grace. Oh. Just what any girl wants... fame, fortune, a Maserati.