- Clark Kent: Hey, Lois, what have we got going on tomorrow?
- Lois Lane: Now there you're using that word again Clark. There is "you'. There is "I'. There is no "we".
- Clark Kent: Not yet.
- Lois Lane: Not ever.
- Clark Kent: We'll see.
- Lois Lane: How long can you hold your breath?
- Clark Kent: A very long time.
- Lois Lane: [unfolding the note that sent her on a wild goose chase after she stole stories from a couple of people] You wouldn't happen to know who sent me this?
- [Clark shrugs]
- Lois Lane: [sees the latest edition of the Planet on his desk] You? *You* got the story?
- Clark Kent: Consider it a life lesson, Lois. No charge.
- Lois Lane: I stole it. I have never stolen a story before in my life. How could I do that? It's him. It's Superman. I mean, ever since he held me in his arms, there's something between us, Lucy. I know it. There's this connection.
- Lucy Lane: You should be ashamed of yourself.
- Lois Lane: I am ashamed of myself. I'm ashamed of myself.
- Lucy Lane: And you'll never do it again?
- Lois Lane: I won't. Never again.
- Lucy Lane: And you'll apologize to Clark Kent?
- Lois Lane: Not in this millennium.
- Lois Lane: I should have the exclusive on the follow-up. Those are the rules.
- Perry White: The rules are off. This is too big.
- Lois Lane: But he's mine! He's mine!
- [realizes she's sounding desperate]
- Lois Lane: As in my story, story mine.
- Martha Kent: [about a spot Clark's trying to get out of his cape] Clark, is it a dirt stain or an oil based stain?
- Clark Kent: I don't know, Mom. It's a bomb stain.
- Lex Luthor: We know Superman can jump high but is he, say, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound? Is he more powerful than a locomotive?
- Lois Lane: [frantically bursts into Clark's new apartment looking for Superman as Clark is signing the lease] All right, where is he?
- Clark Kent: [startled] Where is who?
- Lois Lane: [looks around her, then] Where am I?
- Clark Kent: My new apartment.
- [Lois pauses, then turns and leaves in a very dignified manner]
- Floyd: [loud sirens in background] It's the quietest building in Metropolis. You married?
- Clark Kent: No.
- Floyd: Girlfriend?
- Clark Kent: No.
- Floyd: Boyfriend?
- Clark Kent: [Clark stops walking and turns his head to look at Floyd]
- Floyd: Me, I mind my own business. Where you from?
- Clark Kent: Kansas.
- Lois Lane: Well, what he can't do, it doesn't matter. It's the idea of Superman. Someone to believe in, someone to build a few hopes around. Whatever he can do, that's enough. I just wish that I could tell him that.
- Cat Grant: "We" I like the sound of that. We. Isn't that French for "yes?"
- Clark Kent: Ahem. Not in Smallville.
- Lois Lane: Sure, Clark, and when you run across Jimmy Hoffa and the Easter Bunny, why don't you reel them in, too.
- Jimmy Olsen: [Lois walks in covered in dirt with a broken heal on her shoe] Lois, are you all right?
- Lois Lane: Yeah. I'm fine. Oh, you're referring to my appearance. Well after hours of trudgeing through the muck and the frogs and the *things* I think I have a perfect right to look a bit disheveled. By the way did you know that it was possible to get *completely* lost at the Metropolis Sewer Reclamation Facility?
- Monique: Let me hire a couple of shooters and I'll turn Superman into a large wet spot. Testing won't be necessary.
- Lex Luthor: Have you ever read Sun Tzu's "The Art of War"?
- Monique: I'm waiting for the Reader's Digest version.
- Lex Luthor: Sun Tzu was a general od ancient imperial China, and he teaches us, paraphrasing, of course, 'Knowledge precedes victory, ignorance precedes defeat'.
- Monique: Really? Well, an uzi precedes a bloody mess, even in China.