"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…"

"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 …"

"Now, you see, Dan... generally, pretty much everyone wants to live."

"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."