- Rufe Ryker: I'll tell ya, Sam. There are times I want something, I usually get it. But when I need somethin', I always get it. And I need a cook.
- Joey Starett: Shane, what's the 'devil incarnate' mean?
- Shane: Where'd you hear that?
- Joey Starett: Billy Klinkeninck says his father says Rufe Ryler is the devil incarnate.
- Shane: Well, that's a little strong. We've got our troubles with Rufe Ryker, but he's just a man.
- Joey Starett: Betty Jo Rotter says Rufe Ryker steals babies and eats them. I know, Betty Jo Rotter's stupid.
- Shane: All I want you to do is be polite to him when he gets here.
- Joey Starett: [Incredulous] To Rufe Ryker?
- Joey Starett: [Watching Ryker through the bunkhouse window] Look, here he comes! He's all dressed up. Looks like he's going courtin'!
- Shane: [Cuts himself shaving] Ow! Cut myself!
- Rufe Ryker: No, I've been thinking about you people. About the way you're scratchin' to make out here. Barely making it month to month. Not living in a proper home.
- Tom Starett: This home is proper enough for us.
- Rufe Ryker: I don't mean it that way, Starett. It's just that, if we could all learn to do more cooperatin', it would be better.
- Tom Starett: We don't want to cooperate with you, Ryker!
- Marian Starett: Tom!
- Tom Starett: Well, honey, can't you see it's a trick?
- Marian Starett: All I can see is Mr. Ryker is trying to help matters. And you're trying to keep them in the sorry state they're already in.
- Rufe Ryker: Thank you, Mrs. Starett. I appreciate your feelings. I'm glad there's somebody here agrees with me, understands what I'm trying to do.
- Rufe Ryker: Well, Mrs. Starett, I do appreciate it, that meal. I don't mean just the cookin'. Well, when you eat in a bunkhouse with a lot of men, it ain't the same as home cookin', a woman tendin'.
- Marian Starett: Well, maybe we did achieve something tonight, Mr. Ryker. I found out you're not an ogre, but a man who can be pleasant and charming. And I'll try to remember that in the future.
- Rufe Ryker: Kind words, Mrs. Starett.
- Marian Starett: True words, Mr. Ryker.
- Rufe Ryker: [Taking her extended hand] Rufe.
- Sam Grafton: Rufe, y'know, you're talkin' like a man in love.
- Rufe Ryker: Naw! I'm in need. Maybe it's the same thing.
- Joey Starett: Grandpa, is Shane mad about something?
- Shane: Mad? Why should I be mad?
- Tom Starett: I dunno. Why don't you tell us?
- Shane: Oh, it just doesn't make any sense!
- Tom Starett: What doesn't make sense?
- Shane: Nothing! Everything. Women.
- Sam Grafton: Y'know, when Rufe Ryker sets out to do something he usually gets it done. The only other man I can think of like that in this whole valley is Shane. You know, it's gonna be really interesting to see how this comes out. Really interesting.
- Rufe Ryker: An old grizzly bear like me isn't much of a prize in a contest, is he? I was so full of juice when I moved into this valley. I could turn over the world with these two hands. Yes, that was a time. But there was no time for courtin', just building. That was a time, Mrs. Starett, that was a time. Now, all I got, is what I built.
- Rufe Ryker: 'Cause she's right, Shane. We're both dead. A gunfighter and an open range cattleman. She'd be a fool to take either one of us. You know it's the truth.
- Shane: Yeah. Yeah.