Robert Goren quotes from Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Goren

[while arresting Shill in front of his students] See those writers? They're gonna have a hell of a story.

Goren

[to Frank] I'm done with you. You, you can't contact me anymore. Ever again. You understand? If I hear that you're on a bridge, ready to jump…you know, I'll—I'll listen for the splash.

Goren

I'm a cop. I'm allowed to lie to criminals.

Goren

[looking in Mulrooney's bedroom closet] Is this a closet? It's like two different people live here.

Goren

Does it bother you that the same people who just jacked $300 million are maxing out a stolen credit card?

Eames

Once a thief. You said yourself, they're impulsive.

Goren

Okay, if it doesn't bother you.

Goren

You notice anything unusual?

Eames

Not really.

Goren

It's just that she's putting lipstick on her eyeball. She's taking a picture of the safe.

Eames

Am I missing something?

Goren

I just like to watch.

Eames

Don't equivocate. He's a bad guy.

Goren

Bad guys do what good guys dream.

Eames

She got her hands on this [diamonds], why she didn't run--

Goren

It wasn't about that, it was about him.

Eames

Men come and go, but diamonds--

Goren

Diamonds don't keep you warm at night.

Goren

It could be a prison tattoo.

Eames

How could he get to prison without leaving his prints in the system?

How'd my luggage end up in Amarillo last Christmas?

Goren

She won't run, Ms. Lewin.

[to Carver] Do you trust his judgment?

Carver

On this, yes, yes I do.

Should I trust yours?

We're both dead anyway. You killed us.

Eames

Think again, Gia. You've got a long and healthy life ahead of you.

Goren

I lied. Sorry.

Eames

Popular opinion has this pegged as a murder/suicide.

Goren

I never trust opinion polls.

Eames

It's beautiful.

Goren

Impressionists are too pretty.

Eames

Right. You probably like those sweaty naked people in the next room.

Goren

Lucian Freud? As a matter of fact, I do.

Eames

You can't put that stuff in your home. You can't live with it.

Goren

I'm not interested in living with it. I'm interested in thinking about it.

Tax fraud. How mundane.

Goren

But smart. I like smart.