- Walt Pearce: Well, what did you do about it?
- Neil Pearce: Nothin'.
- Walt Pearce: That's the kind of son I got. You know, when I was your age, I already had two notches on my gun.
- Walt Pearce: [to Neil] I should have given you a darning needle instead of a gun. You shoulda been a girl.
- Neil Pearce: You made a fool out of me in there.
- Bill Longley: I could have made you good and dead. Why'd you do it?
- Neil Pearce: Haven't you heard, Mister? You're not considered a man around here until you've got a notch on your gun.
- Bill Longley: Havin' nothin' but a gun in your hand can be a lonesome thing. Lonesome is all the time.
- [last lines]
- Neil Pearce: I guess I'll never get a notch on my gun.
- Bill Longley: A fella can get a notch on his gun by not pullin' the trigger.