“The trouble with trouble was that trouble was looking for Coldwater Gatling. They don't like Texas Rangers down in Arizona, consequently Coldwater Gatling figured shoot first and find out who you killed afterwards. That's how they did it in the Lone Star State where men were men and the women didn't mind cooking for hard-riding straight-shooting people like Coldwater Gatling, the toughest man in leather they had down there.”

“They looked like men. That was the trouble with devils, Carolyn thought. Too often they looked like men.”

“Idiots, Halt muttered. If we were here to cause trouble, we could simply ride them both down”

“Huge and mighty forms, that do not live
Like living men, moved slowly through the mind
By day, and were a trouble to my dreams.”

“Her mother had once told her that there were men who kept secrets bottled up inside and that it spelled trouble for the women who loved them.”

“The average man don't like trouble and danger.”

“Do you kill people?'
'Not regularly. It's too much trouble making my peace with the gods afterwards.”

“Troubleshooters?" Michael asked.

"When there's trouble," I told him, "they shoot it.”

“Ole man trouble
Go find you someone else to pick on.
I live my life now you see.
Ole man trouble,
Please stay away from me, now.Oh I look like I'm down in my luck.
Please send faith to help pick me up.
I've lived this way so many years
Ole man trouble,
Please wash away all my fears.”

“He's in for trouble—the man whose wife is detested by all women and desired by all men.”