“Bears that dance, bears that don't.”

“What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.”

“After a while he pulled his hat down over his eyes and stood and placed his hands outstretched on the roof of the cab and rode in that manner. As if he were some personage bearing news for the countryside. As if he were some newfound evangelical being conveyed down out of the mountains....”

“The judge is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.”

“He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.”

“whoever approaches his goal dances”

“I tell you this, as war becomesdishonored and its nobility called into question those honorable men who recognize the sanctity of blood will become excluded from the dance, which is the warrior's right, and thereby will the dance become a false dance and the dancers false dancers. And yet there be one there always who is a true dancer and can you guess who that might be?You ain't nothing.”