- Ann: There's no food left. Only the dogs. And Mrs. Hillman is refusing to clean unless I pay her what I apparently owe her. Like all poor people, she's obsessed with money.
- Richard Wilder: Doesn't it seem odd, Laing? That a man can fall from the thirty-ninth floor, and not one police car turn up? Where's the investigation, Laing? I mean, where's the sirens? Laing!
- [first lines]
- Laing: [narrating] For all its inconveniences, Laing was satisfied with life in the high-rise. Now that so many of the residents were out of the way, he felt able to relax. More in charge of himself. Ready to move forward and explore life. How and where, exactly, he had not yet decided.
- Nathan Steele: [checking teeth] I see the rot's set in. Do you fancy a drink? Cosgrove is here. All boys together.
- [indicates a dead man]
- Laing: Sometimes he found it difficult not to believe they were living in a future that had already taken place.
- Charlotte: You know, you look much better without your clothes on. You're lucky. Not many people do.
- Anthony Royal: I've put all my energies into this tower. I'm it's midwife, so to speak.
- Laing: [Looks at design on paper] Mmm. It looks like the unconscious diagram of some kind of psychic event.
- Pangbourne: [about to throw someone off the high rise] Time for your flying lesson
- Cosgrove: You'll never work in television again
- Anthony Royal: [as a couple of men hang Laing off of the balcony] You can't put him over the edge. He owes me a game of squash!