Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody — to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. — John Steinbeck

His ear heard more than is said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.

I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.