- Bill: You see, I don't like to ask folks questions; everyone has a secret side. By God, that's the way it should be.
- [first lines]
- Bill: [examining bear tracks] That's a huge male; bet he's more'n fifteen hundred pounds.
- [Angered by the death and maiming of their horses and mule by the Kodiak bear in retaliation for being shot by his companion Tom, Bill is filled with vengeance]
- Bill: I swear it I'll kill you!