- Christopher Portal: It's small but I find that confined. The quarters leave less room for missing the domestic pleasures.
- Arthur Sutro: It's a genuine old-time Dakota ceremonial pipe. It woulda brought up to $100 in St Jose... No, Mister, you got me all wrong... This one, I seen it on the medicine lodge. It just called me in a wave of smoke. Medicine man, he wanted to pass out drugs to the others. He screeched like a bobcat when I had to manhawk him. Of the whole sleuth was on me.
- Johnny Yuma: Yeah, well, you got off real easy.
- Arthur Sutro: Savages! Smashing a $200 pipe, 'cos. No more good for ghost magic.
- Johnny Yuma: Tell me something. Suppose you struck it rich some time?
- Christopher Portal: Mr Yuma, I can think of no greater disaster even in this world or in the next.
- Christopher Portal: For wisdom and joy and sorrow, Testaments. For company, the man from Stratford. For sheer, sinful dissipation, Franke Yankee Noel Webster, our learned neighbour from Connecticut.