“It will all end very badly, Gus”

“A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae”

“Gus was looking at him for confirmation of all his sorrows.”

“I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.”

“Gus the driver is everywhere and yet he appears nowhere, not in portraits or photographs, not even in the stories of men like Barthelme and Carver, who were all about guys with jobs and prospects like Gus's but who insisted on more sorrow, more angst, than Gus remotely manifests. If Gus weeps sometimes for no reason, if he stands despairing in the aisle of a Wal-Mart, it is not apparent in his daily demeanor...”

“Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me.”