Inherent Vice * Quotes

Doc: "How would I forget something like that?"
Deputy Kimball: "Grass. And who knows what else?"
Doc: "I'm only a light smoker."
Deputy Kimball: "How many joints have you had today?"
Doc: "I have to check the logbook."

"Well Mornin' Sam, like a bad luck planet in today's horoscope, here's the old hippie-hating mad dog himself in the flesh: Lieutenant Detective Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen. SAG member, John Wayne walk, flat top of Flintstone proportions and that evil, little shit-twinkle in his eye that says Civil Rights Violations."

"Inherent vice in a maritime insurance policy is anything that you can't avoid. Eggs break, chocolate melts, glass shatters, and Doc wondered what that meant when it applied to ex old ladies."

"Back when they were together she could go weeks without anything more complicated than a pout. Now she was laying some heavy combination of face ingredients on Doc that he couldn't read at all."

Shasta: "I went on a boat ride."
Doc: "A three hour tour?"
Shasta: "They told me I was precious cargo that couldn't be insured because of inherent vice."
Doc: "What's that?"
Shasta: "I don't know."

Shasta: "It isn't what you're thinking, Doc."
Doc: "Don't worry. Thinking comes later. What else?"

Doc: "Are you okay, brother?"
Bigfoot: "I'm not your brother."
Doc: "No, but you could use a keeper."