I don’t judge another man unless I’ve walked in his shoes.
Ain’t nothing so fragile as a young man.
A town full of ladies… it’s ripe fruit for the wicked.
Sometimes men want me to kill them, so they can die attached to some purpose.
Safe is one of those funny words. Sometimes means something different to the person who says it and person who hears it.
I learned to love Mr. Haight. He taught me with the stick and the bullwhip and the knife how to love. Same as I love Roy Goode now. For he is my son. I chose him. And that is a more powerful bond, a more powerful love than being born into it.
Good Book says pain is its own teacher.
Family is everything, son. Without family, we’re lost.[to Roy]