- Philip Marlowe: I'll see you tonight.
- Laura Parker-Marlowe: [flippantly] Which jail?
- Philip Marlowe: Look, Mrs. Marlowe, I'm just a lug. There are things I can do, like shoot, I can keep my word, I can tail a guy who's walking backwards, I can open a door into a dark room where there's trouble waiting... and so, I do them. I find work that fits what I do. I get a hundred dollars a day. I can't be bought or pushed. Not even for love.
- Laura Parker-Marlowe: [pauses, then, softly] Okay.
- Seymour: [after talking for a while] Can I call you Philip?
- Philip Marlowe: You can call me Santa Claus if it'll get you to the point.