Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.

Thou mayest rule over sin.

Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.

Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.

At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, "You can't make a race horse of a pig." Samuel replies, "No, but you can make a very fast pig.

There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I don't mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that's the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln.