- Doc Emmett Ealy: Do you ever stop to think about life?
- Tate: Whenever I see a man die.
- Doc Emmett Ealy: I was thinkin' about you and me. Kinda like a woman buying yard goods over a counter. She buying, the storekeeper selling, but they're both dealing in the selfsame goods. Kinda like you and me. We're both trading in human life.
- Tate: But on different sides of the counter.
- Doc Emmett Ealy: He's Bert Bowers. He's the carpenter here.
- Bert Bowers: I also do what undertakin' there is. Kinda goes with making the boxes.