If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.

With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.

I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out.

The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it.