"When you think about it, which I have been lately, is they weren't paying me to walk away. They were paying me so the…"

"[to Alice] If I don't go, we got to pack up and leave, and God knows where, without a prayer, dirt-poor. Now I'm tire…"

"I ain't never been no hero, Wade. The only battle I seen, we was in retreat. My foot got shot off by one of my own me…"

"Well, would you look at all this? Y'all spared no expense this time, Byron. I gotta say, though, it's probably cheape…"

"Well, Tommy... it seems that there was a Pinkerton... inside that coach that wasn't quite dead yet. Now, I know Charl…"

"It's man's nature to take what he wants, Dan. That's how we're born."

"Your conscience is sensitive, Dan. I don't think it's my favorite part of you."

"Now, I always liked you, Byron. But you never knew when to shut up. Even bad men love their mamas."

"You do one good deed for somebody... I imagine it's habit-forming. Something decent. See that grateful look in their …"

"It's too bad the doctors at Essex saved so much of my leg. I read that the pension act pays by the pound now."