Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.

don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?

Men often marry their mothers.

... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.

I never would just open a door and walk through, I had to bust it down for the hell of it. I just naturally liked doing things the hard way.

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in the state of Texas and around outside, why, you could spend your life going to weddings. But a funeral, that's different. You only die once.