"Charles, eh? Perhaps you've read On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin? Oh, don't be thrown by the title, he had some most fascinating things to say. Chilling things! Mr. Darwin spent time studying Aboriginals. He claims we are, at bottom … one and the same! [Laughs] He infers, Mr. Murphy, that we a share a common ancestry with monkeys! Monkeys!"

"Permit me to introduce myself. My name is Jellon Lamb. Citizen of the world, you might say, an adventurer, and, if I may be so bold, a man of no little education."

"[Motions for Charlie to put his gun away] No, no need for that. No need for that. We are white men, you and I!"

"You see, My Dude, I am something of a fortune hunter."

"I was, in days gone by, a believer. But, alas, I came to this beleaguered land and the God in me just … evaporated. Let us change our toast, then, to the God that has forgotten us."

"This may hurt."

"[As Samuel tries to rape Martha] Listen to that. He sings just like a bird."

"[After being shot] Oh, not the gut, Charlie. Shit."

"Molly O'Boyle, my arse."

"Love. Love is the key. Love and family. For what are night and day, the sun, the moon, the stars without love and those you love around you? What could more hollow than to die alone, unloved?"

"Mikey's not the same stuff as us. We will be flung to the depths, you and I."

"Look at that. Be humble of heart, Charlie. This is the end of things. You're my brother. You belong with me. We are a family. All of us."

"You got me, Charlie. What are you gonna do now?"

"Why can't you ever just … stop me?"

"I'm going to be with my brother"

"You know, Samuel, the thing I relished the most while I was away? Was not having to see your fucking face all the time."

"One more crack about the Irish, Mr. Lamb, and I'll shoot you. Am I clear?"

"You touch my brother again, I'll kill you."

"I wish to present you with a proposition. I know where Arthur Burns is. It is is a godforsaken place. The blacks won't go there, nor the trackers. Not even my own men. I suppose, in time, the bounty hunters will get him. But I have other plans. I aim to bring him down. I aim to show that he is a man like any other. I aim to hurt him. And what will most hurt him? Well, I've thought long and hard about that. And I've realized, Mr. Burns, that I must become a little more inventive in my methods."

"I will civilize this land."

"I've kept company with bad men all my life."

"You have nine days, Mr. Burns."

"Arthur Burns is a monster. An abomination. You were right to break company with him. What happened at the Hopkins place was unforgivable. I have never seen such a sickening sight. Did you know that that poor woman, Eliza Hopkins, had a child in her belly?"

"Australia. What fresh hell is this?"

"Burt Reynolds - Lewis Medlock"

"Jon Voight - Ed Gentry"

"Four men ride a wild river. A weekend turns into a nightmare."

"What did happen on the Cahulawassee River?"

"This is the weekend they didn't play golf."

"He was the tightest and damndest pig I ever did screw."

"I sleep at night. I have no worries. I am becoming myself, as inconsequential as that may be. I am not something that somebody shoved off on me. I am what I chose to be, and I am it."

"Sometimes you have to lose yourself before you can find anything...A couple more months, she'll all be gone...from Aintry on up. One big dead lake."

"Macon McCalman - Deputy Queen"

"Billy Redden - Lonnie, the banjo boy"

"James Dickey - Sheriff Bullard"

"Herbert "Cowboy" Coward - Toothless Man"

"Bill McKinney - Mountain Man"

"Ronny Cox - Drew Ballinger"

"Ned Beatty - Bobby Trippe"

"Jermaine "Huggy" Hopkins - Tyrone"

"Too Short - Lew-Loc"

"Julian Roy Doster - Anthony"

"Pooh-Man - Doc"

"Arnold Johnson - Thomas Lawson"

"Marilyn Coleman - Mrs. Lawson"

"Clifton Powell - Chauncy"