- Jay Cavendish: I know why you need my help
- Silas Selleck: Oh yeah?
- Jay Cavendish: Yeah. You're lonely. You're a lonely man.
- Silas Selleck: Sure, kid.
- Jay Cavendish: "Sure, kid." "Let's drift." Silent, lonely drifter. You're a lonely, lonely man.
- Silas Selleck: No need to concern over me. Hold still.
- Jay Cavendish: All I'm sayin' is there's more to life than just surviving.
- Silas Selleck: Yeah. There's dyin'. Survival ain't just how to skin a jackrabbit. It's knowing when to bluster and when to hush. When to take a beating and when to strike.
- Jay Cavendish: Where's your folks?
- Silas Selleck: Father's in the ground in Ireland, mother's in the ground in Canada.
- Jay Cavendish: So what keeps you from joining them?
- Silas Selleck: I don't know, kid. Quit asking me shit. I was fine 'til you showed up.
- Jay Cavendish: *I* showed up? *You* showed up.
- Silas Selleck: Yeah, well maybe I'm tired of showin' up.
- [last lines]
- Silas Selleck: There is more to life than survival. Jay Cavendish taught me that. I owe him my life. Ho for the west.
- Silas Selleck: Jay...
- [pause]
- Silas Selleck: He loved you with all his heart.
- [pause]
- Rose Ross: His heart was in the wrong place.
- [pause]
- Silas Selleck: His spirit was true.
- Werner: So, now... East. What news?
- Jay Cavendish: Violence and suffering. And West?
- Werner: Dreams and toil.
- Werner: A race extinct, their culture banished, their places re-named. Only then will they be viewed with selective nostalgia, mythologized and romanticized in the safe guise of art... and literature
- [in french]
- Congolese Singer 1: Did you enjoy our music?
- Jay Cavendish: Yes. I enjoyed the song very much.
- Congolese Singer 1: It's a song about love.
- Jay Cavendish: Love is universal, like death.
- Jay Cavendish: [gazing up at the sky] Same stars, same moon... One day we'll be wanderin' 'round that moon. They'll build a railroad. A railroad up and down the ways. A railroad to the moon. And when we get there... the first thing we'll do... is hunt the natives down.
- Silas Selleck: No Indians on the moon.
- Jay Cavendish: No, the natives of the moon. The moon people.
- Silas Selleck: [Narrating] That kid was a wonder. He saw things differently. To him, we were in a land of hope and good will.
- Jay Cavendish: It's just a shame.
- Silas Selleck: Is it?
- Jay Cavendish: No. No it's not. Charles Darwin talks of evolution by natural selection.
- Silas Selleck: For our sake, let's hope he's wrong.
- [first lines]
- Silas Selleck: [narrating] Once upon a time, 1870 to be exact, a 16-year-old kid traveled from the cold shoulder of Scotland to the baking heart of America to find his love. His name was Jay. Her name was Rose.
- Jay Cavendish: All I'm sayin' is... there's more to life than just survivin'.
- Silas Selleck: Yeah, there's dyin'.
- Jay Cavendish: I killed a woman yesterday.
- Werner: Part and parcel.
- Jay Cavendish: You care not to share your company with a murderer?
- Werner: I'd be a lonely man if I did. I am no judge, nor father. In a short time this will be a long time ago.
- Payne: It's easy to see how you two crossed paths. One's a falling angel, the other one's a rising devil.
- Silas Selleck: I ain't no angel
- Shop Keeper: [offering a bottle] Whiskey?
- Silas Selleck: [no] Got any meat?
- Shop Keeper: I got condemned bacon. Traded it for bullets. Both'll kill you pretty quick.
- Johan: [drawing his gun] Sorry. Money... Please.
- Shop Keeper: Well, now, looky here. You realize if I give you money, here's the only place around where you can spend it.
- [last lines]
- Silas Selleck: [narrating] His spirit was true. There is more to life than survival. Jay Cavendish taught me that. I owe him my life. Ho for the West.
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