- Rusty: Have you heard of some fellas, who first came over to this country? You know what they found? They found a howling wilderness, with summers too hot, and winters freezing. Did they have insurance for their old age, for their crops, for their homes? They did not. They looked at the land and the forest and the rivers they looked at their wives, their kids, and their houses. Then they looked up at the sky and said thanks God, we'll take it from here. They were men!
- Rusty: I don't want a woman who wants to tell the world what to do. I don't even want a woman who wants to tell ME what to do!
- Ortega: Has the senõrita the experience to attempt so deep a philosophy?
- Kit: Well, I've kept my eyes open. And I've read a great deal.
- Ortega: Huh, you will pardon the observation, senõrita, but to men of my years it would seem best to first live, and then write a book.
- Kit: To live appears to me to be full of confusion and very little else.
- Ortega: Confusion, yes, but it is better to live and make the confusion than to know and not live.