You gotta have a swine to show you where the truffles are.

The line uses the old image of truffle-hunting pigs to suggest an uncomfortable dependence: valuable discoveries (the “truffles”) are often located or made accessible by someone coarse, compromised, or socially disdained (the “swine”). In Albee’s world—where power, class, and cruelty frequently structure relationships—the remark can read as a cynical aphorism about patronage and exploitation: refined people may congratulate themselves on taste and discernment, yet rely on less “respectable” agents to do the dirty work of finding opportunity, money, or truth. It also hints at self-implication: the speaker may recognize that their own gains are entangled with someone else’s abasement.