“If you need a gun to do it with, you aren't doing it right." Sheriff Bud Smith.”

“If you have to hang a man you could have put on a better trail, you aren't entitled to own a rope.”

“What I got in life that can't be probated I reckon I'll have to take with me. Mostly that is my thankful recollections of all the folks who crossed my trail since I shed my first tears in the year of 1880. Sometimes I had to look hard to find God in them, but most times I found Him. Usually it turned out to be easier to find than I had figured," Sheriff Bud Smith.”

“If you need a gun to do it with, you aren't doing it right." Sheriff Bud Smith.”

“Never let the law interfere with justice.”

“If I can keep writing just one good page a day, I will have 15 published novels in my expected lifetime. Tick, tick, tick...”