- Juan Carlos Morrita: I dream of them! I pray for sleep! I pray and then I dream of them! Twelve men! I was an altar boy, Paladin. I was this close to God when I was a child. And now I have killed twelve men! I see their faces! I cannot forget them! If I cannot, Paladin, can the others?
- Juan Carlos Morrita: When a man steals from you, he takes a part of your life. He takes what you are. He's a dead man, Paladin. Forget him!
- Will Haskell: Mr Paladin, don't stand in front of him. They say he can pull a gun faster than the eye can follow.
- Paladin: Is that what they say?
- Paladin: [Hey Boy has been reading the newspaper over Paladin's shoulder and has a fit of the giggles] Hey Boy, although I consider curiosity as one of the permanent and certain virtues of a vigorous mind, there are those that consider curiosity after the affairs of another, to be motivated by envy or an evil mind.