- Veronica Palmer: You have to be smart to be an assistant. You have to be totally in sync with your magician. Know when to pull the wire, slip him the key, ice his nipples.
- Ted Crisp: What is the last thing the dove sees?
- Veronica Palmer: He's blindfolded. It's better for both of us.
- Veronica Palmer: For those two days, I don't have to be in charge of anything. It's a total release. All I have to do is please the man I love... and twice nightly lock him in a watertight drum, which also pleases him.
- Mordor: [Walking into Veronica's dressing room] Are you ready, Athena? Oh! Hey, Ted. Listen, if you don't mind, Athena and I have a preshow ritual. It's kind of a prayer/sex thing. So if you could leave or find something to read?
- Ted Crisp: You want me to be with Linda, but it's not gonna happen.
- Rose Crisp: I have an opinion about that.
- Ted Crisp: Well, it's not up to you, honey. When you call the shots, we end up buying boats.
- Rose Crisp: A boat. One time.
- Ted Crisp: $140,000.
- Rose Crisp: I think we're done here.