"She said, "Welcome to the land of the living dead," but you could tell she was so brokenhearted — she said, "Even the swap meets around here are getting pretty corrupt.""

"I know she ain't you, but she's here, and she's got that dark rhythm in her soul."

"I can't believe we've lived so long and are still so far apart."

"[Recounting a scene in The Gunfighter] Turn him loose, let him go, let him say he outdrew me fair and square — I want him to feel what it's like to every moment face his death."

"Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do."

"Somebody's got to cry some tears, I guess it must be up to me."

"When you bite off more than you can chew, you pay the penalty, somebody's got to tell the tale, I guess it must be up to me."

"It frightens me the awful truth of how sweet life can be."

"The old Rounder in the iron mask slipped me the master key, somebody had to unlock your heart, he said it was up to me."

"If I thought about it, I never would have done it, I guess I would have let it slide."

"I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity."

"Let me feel your love one more time before I abandon it."

"My patron saint is a-fighting with a ghost. He's always off somewhere when I need him most."

"I've been deceived by the clown inside of me. I thought that he was righteous but he's vain."

"If you want somebody you can trust, trust yourself."

"All I see are dark eyes."

"Time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies."

"I can hear another drum beating for the dead that rise, whom Nature's beast fears as they come."

"I live in another world, where life and death are memorized."

"What looks large from a distance, close up ain't never that big."

"Man is opposed to fair play: he wants it all, and he wants it his way."

"For man has invented his doom; first step was touching the moon."

"Man thinks 'cause he rules the earth, he can do with it as he please. And if things don't change soon, he will."

"Yesterday's just a memory; tomorrow's never what it's supposed to be."

"Democracy don't rule the world; you'd better get that in your head. This world is ruled by violence."

"It's sundown on the union that was made in the USA. Sure was a good idea till greed got in the way."

"Capitalism is above the law; it's said it don't count 'less it sells."

"A lot of people complaining that there is no work. I say, "Why you say that for?" When nothin' you got is US-made — they don't make nothin' here no more."

"Took a stranger to teach me to look into justice's beautiful face, and to see an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."

"Some one else is speaking with my mouth, but I'm listening only to my heart."

"He's following a star, the same one that the three men followed east."

"He could be standing next to you, the person that you notice least."

"Nobody sees through him — no, not even the chief of police."

"Sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace."

"There's only one step down from here, baby. It's called the Land of Permanent Bliss."

"Steal a little and they throw you in jail; steal a lot and they make you king."

"They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings."

"They say in your father's house there's many mansions; each one of 'em got a fireproof floor."

"Just how much abuse will you be able to take? Well, there's no way to tell by the first kiss."

"A woman like you should be at home. That's where you belong, taking care of somebody nice who don't know how to do you wrong."

"A woman just gave birth to a prince today and dressed him in scarlet. He'll put the priest in his pocket, put the blade to the heat, take the motherless children off the street and place them at the feet of a harlot."

"The rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame; preacherman seeks the same. Who'll get there first is uncertain."

"The book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers."

"You look into the fiery furnace, see the rich man without any name."

"You go to Sodom and Gomorrah, but what do you care? Ain't nobody there would want to marry your sister."

"Shedding off one more layer of skin, keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within."

"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread, both of their futures so full of dread."

"Freedom just around the corner for you, but with truth so far off, what good will it do?"

"I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand"

"In the fury of the moment I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand"