Willie tried to enlist in the army and was turned down; whereupon he threw his job, came home, announced that he was a failure, and went to bed. (...) He said he was going to stay in bed and never get up as long as he lived.

He wasn't exactly a bum, he was just a weak man who whined all the time. But he played the guitar.

Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.

But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.