“I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.”

“You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.”

“It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.”

“I don't do my work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life. ”

“I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.”

“Rumors or no, Thomas, if the men strike, we'll see fecal gravity at work like never before. Ain't a man in this room who won't be covered in shit.”