- Rubriz: You young ones have not heard enough bullets to know the song of them. When I rode with Juarez, I heard them by the hundreds. Enough bullets to know their music.
- T. Jefferson Leffingwell: We don't need Tattoo. No sense dragging a lot of dead weight... especially when it's all drunken mouth.
- Choya: All my life, I've been a snake. I've lived by my wits. I've gotten what I've wanted anyway I wanted it. Just lately I've been wondering just for once if I couldn't do something straight... do something a little decent.
- [indicating Choya's guns]
- Ruth Lavery: You don't need to wear them around here.
- Choya: I wouldn't feel dressed without them.
- Ruth Lavery: What's your name?
- Choya: Choya.
- Ruth Lavery: That's Spanish for cactus. Why do they call you that?
- Choya: Ever tried to pick one?