“It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.”

“One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.”

“Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.”

“You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.”

“The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.”

“Life there was hard and it made people hard.”

“There was nothing to compare with standing on a ice of land you owned free and clear. No one could push you off it, no one could take it from you, no one could tell you what to do with it.”