“Dave Rudabaugh is an ignorant scoundrel! I disapprove of his very existence.”

My mama always told me never put off till tomorrow people you can kill today.

Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man’s muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves.

You take on a job, you finish it. Any man who can’t be depended on steady, ain’t worth the trouble of having around.

It said that a lot of people, when they die, they see this light. Like in a tunnel. They say it’s the light leadin’ you to heaven.

There’s no normal life there’s just life. Now get on with it.

The most important lesson I learned was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time.

Nothing counts so much as blood. The rest are just strangers.

Destiny is that which we are drawn towards and fate is that which we run into.

You’d be doing me a favor if you called me Wyatt or Earp, but not both.”

Mister, I’ve been in a really bad mood for the last few years, so I’d appreciate it if you’d just leave me alone.

You gonna do somethin’? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?

That nothing’s so sacred as honor and nothing’s so loyal as love.”

I have nothing left, nothing to give you, I have no pride, no dignity, no money, I don’t even know how we’ll make a living, but I promise I’ll love you the rest of your life.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is final. In a gun fight. You need to take your time in a hurry.

Look at all the stars. You look up and you think, ‘God made all this and he remembered to make a little speck like me’. It’s kind of flattering, really.

No wise man ever took a handgun to a gunfight.

Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.

Perhaps the saddest of all are those who living waiting for someone they’re not sure exists.

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Beneath this skin beneath these bones beneath this blood I exist.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

He who would live must fight. He who doesn’t wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.

Ghosts exist as thoughts, and some of them are hauntingly beautiful.