The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.

Every man in a bank hates what the bank does and yet the bank does it.

I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.

All great and precious things are lonely.

... every little boy thinks he invented sin.

Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.