“The Youth Killer” quotes from Kolchak: The Night Stalker

You're Kolchak?

Carl Kolchak

Yeah, that's right.

You're the one the precinct captains are always talking about?

Carl Kolchak

What do they say?

That you're a pinwheel.

Hey, why don't you take another cab?

[speaking with a hangover] Who do you think you're talking to, cabbie? I am the president of my own feed company. I flew here first class. I'm staying at the Randolph, the biggest hotel in the world. Twenty-four hundred rooms.

Hey, sport, you are not staying at the biggest hotel in the world. The Hotel Rossiya in Moscow has thirty-two hundred rooms and your hotel's nothing.

[pauses] Who counts Communists?

Tony Vincenzo

Carl, do you mind if I read the copy? After all, I am the bureau chief here.

Carl Kolchak

Yes, absolutely, Tony. Absolutely. Tomorrow morning, first thing, I'll spitball a few ideas at cha.

Tony Vincenzo

Spitballing a few ideas is when you start a feature, not when you're polishing it.

Carl Kolchak

No, no. That's the way I work, Tony. See, I spit and polish at the same time.

Ron Updyke

With the proper food and exercise, you should be able to do everything at ninety that you can do at nineteen.