- Clayton Runnymede Endicott III: I ask myself , "If every night begets the dawn, who is the father of this day?" But no one answers when I ask --perhaps they've gone away. I ask myself, "If every day must die at dusk, are we to mourn each day?" But silent night makes no rely; there is nothing left to say. And yet, who am I to question life as it winds from light to dark and all the birds do sing? The earth revolves but not 'round me, the sun its only hinge. So take me life for all I'm worth and teach me day to day to live and laugh and love and work! And now and then, I'll pray.
- Miss Gretchen Wilomena Kraus: [Kraus is watching television as the Governor's staff waits for the last election results to come in] Wundebar! We did it.
- Governor Eugene Xavier Gatling: What?
- Miss Gretchen Wilomena Kraus: The Philadelphia Flyers won their game tonight.
- Miss Gretchen Wilomena Kraus: You know, when I was a teenager in Bavaria, I was in a movie once.
- Benson DuBois: Yeah? I think I saw it, you were the blob, right?
- Miss Gretchen Wilomena Kraus: I was in only one scene. I was in love with a German boy who tended his sheep.
- Benson DuBois: You played a love scene with a German Shepherd?