For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now it's binding no more. The potency of the media is now stronger than that of the family. The wonder is that families still exist at all, since the forces of modern life mainly all pull people away from a family centered way of life.

A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.

He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae

The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn’t allow for women, and it’s also racist - it doesn’t allow for other cultures.

The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.