“Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.”

“He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way.”

“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”

“Killing a man should be more different than killing a game. It was not.”

“How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.”

“There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would take the other, for no man should take me alive. I should fight for liberty as long as my strength lasted.”