- Donald Whitley Carson III: [after finding water in a cactus] This stuff's a great discovery. Just sit there and work on it all day and you can get enough juice to sit there and work on it all day.
- Donald Whitley Carson III: They probably thought I'd eat all my food right away, drink all my water, sit there and die. Probably think I'm dead already. They sure had a nice set-up. Pretty near perfect. Just one little flaw. They picked the wrong guy.
- Sam Elby: Thought anything about what you're gonna do to... them folks?
- Donald Whitley Carson III: Funny. I probably wouldn't have even gotten out of there except for thinking what I was going to do to them. But now, somehow they... seem kind of unimportant. I do too.
- Sam Elby: A man can't spend much time out here, alone, and feel important. Good, yes, but... not important.