Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.

I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out.

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.

With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.

I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.