My life is over, for all practical purposes. I no longer have enough money to keep a women. - Charles Portis

I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.

I have left off crying, and giggling as well. Now make up your mind. I don't care anything for all this talk. You told me what your price for the job was and I have come up with it. Here is the money. I aim to get Tom Chaney and if you are not game I will find somebody who is game. All I have heard out of you so far is talk. I know you can drink whiskey and I have seen you kill a gray rat. All the rest has been talk. They told me you had grit and that is why I came to you. I am not paying for talk. I can get all the talk I need and more at the Monarch boardinghouse.