Robert Goren quotes from Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Goren

Jo.... it's time.

[resigned] Tell my dad everything. He'll come to my cell now. He'll listen to me. However long it takes.

Goren

Brian told you your husband was having an affair?

This is a small town. I've learned to ignore the rumor mill. I just keep...

Goren

Smiling?

No one wants to hear you're happy.

[referring to his late mother] She was a bit of a self-medicator.

Goren

I know the type.

Mrs. Goren

Bobby, Bobby, Bobby. I don't trust these people.

No, no, look. You've got the head radiation technician coming in to-- she'll give you the test you need--

Mrs. Goren

[interrupting] Oh, please. Head technician? Do you really think they're going to bring in the head person? On, on, on Thanksgiving Day? No. No no. They'd never. They'll get some lackey they can push around.

Goren

So. Ashton. The women soldiers in Iraq. Treated as equals?

Truth is, sir, in Iraq the guys put the female soldiers into two categories. Sluts if they slept around, and bitches if they didn't.

Goren

Amanda. Which category did you put her in?

I say this with respect, sir. Amanda was a bitch.

What do you know about my daughter? What about what kind of father I am?

Goren

As little as you know about who I am.

Eames

What the hell was that, Bobby? You want to throw it all away? Just-- I know--

Goren

Back off.

Goren

It's hard to get a confession if he's capable of guilt. Maybe we should tell him he has nothing to feel guilty about?

Eames

[coldly] You do that. [She leaves him standing by his desk.]

Capt. Ross

[As Goren leaves the interview room] Good job, detectives. You can give me your paperwork--

Goren

[leaving] You can save it, alright? I'm leaving. You want to fire me, fire me. [He tosses his notebook on his desk on the way out the door.] I don't care.

Capt. Ross

His father had allergies, so you think Ernest Foley may be good for a double family murder 18 years apart?

Goren

Yeah, that's one-one one theory - has anybody ever told you you're reductive?

Capt. Ross

My ex-wife.

He told us you were stalking him.

Goren

We're detectives. We don't stalk.

Goren

He likes mysteries.

Eames

Now he gets to be in one.

Goren

Are we good?

Eames

I hope so.

Mrs. Goren

You know, he wants a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Sure like to see what goes on in that bedroom. Why're you defending him?

I'm not defending him.

Mrs. Goren

They're charlatans, these people. He's supposed to be a believer. In which case he's supposed to believe that God had a reason for her death, right? So why's he crying?

Eames

I checked her PDA. Found his cell number. When you call it, Diego directs you to a web site because, as he says, "seeing is believing."

Capt. Ross

You're kidding. "Rent this hunk. Diego. By the hour or by the night. Muscular, tanned, relentless--"

Goren

[watching Ross with interest] We can all read, Captain.