Marion Crane: Do you go out with friends?Norman Bates: A boy's best friend is his mother.
California Charlie: It's the first time the customer ever high-pressured the salesman. I figure roughly... your car plus seven hundred dollars.Marion Crane: Seven hundred dollars?California Charlie: You always got time to argue money, huh?
Sam Loomis: You mean the old woman I saw tonight wasn't Mrs. Bates?Sheriff Al Chambers: Now wait a minute, Sam, are you *sure* you saw an old woman?Sam Loomis: Yes! In the house behind the motel! I called and I pounded, but she just ignored me!Sheriff Al Chambers: You mean to tell me you saw Norman Bates' mother?Lila Crane: It had to be - because Arbogast said so too. And the young man wouldn't let him see her because she was too ill.Sheriff Al Chambers: Well, if the woman up there is Mrs. Bates... who's that woman buried out in Greenlawn Cemetery?
Marion Crane: Taxidermy. That is a strange hobby to fill.Norman Bates: A hobby should pass the time, not fill it.
