"Not much to it really, you go in and you point a gun. Doesn't matter about your age. But, if we're not of the same mind, I won't mention it again, just put it right out of my head. Find a new way to go." "Just a lot to take in. One minute you're making an honest woman of me, next one you got me robbing a bank." "Well, maybe so, but the way I figure it, a man with a wife's got to have ambition." "And I can see you got plenty of it, boxing your way through law school, but, come on, just look how they ended up, those two.

" Still thinking he might be joking with her. "I mean, you've run into trouble and paid the price ." "Actually more of it than I told you." Telling her he did six years for the Missouri bank job. "Learned from my mistakes, and I learned from some of the pros in the joint too." "Pros who got arrested." "See, the way I see it, old Clyde got a couple things right, one thing he was a V8 man, figured Ford was the most reliable car on the road. But, guess he got a couple of other things the wrong way around.

Sure you want to hear?" "Go on." "Well, what they did, him and Bonnie, they swung in a circle skirting the edges of a couple of states, taking advantage of the state-line rule, you know the one?" "Bank robbers got rules, huh?" "Rule being lawmen from one state can't give chase in another. A good lawyer'd get you off in a minute." "Okay, but how come a Ford?" She was having fun with him now. "Well, Clyde loved his Ford V8. Even wrote and told old Henry Ford so. Said 'what a dandy car you make, Henry.' Told him he drove Fords anytime he could get away with one.

Faster and free of trouble. Ford's got all the rest skinned." "He really tell him that?" "Yeah, he did. Although, you ask me, there's nothing wrong with a good Buick." "So, you study the law, and find out how to break it." "Figures you'd see it that way, smarty pants." Bennie turned on his side, looking at her. "See, it was mostly sharp thinking on Clyde's part, except in the end he put trust in the wrong fella, and maybe didn't know when to quit.

And the cops got to this wrong fellow and set up that ambush." "Could have stepped out with their badges and guns and made them stop and give up. Send them to prison." "Not how the FBI and the Texas Rangers think. Strikes a nerve with that J. Edgar Hoover as soon as you cross a state line. And that man doesn't like the hero image some bank robbers get -- taking from the rich, giving to the poor. Why he likes to paint them as public enemies.

" "That what you want to be, a public enemy?" "Like I said, if you don't want to do it, we don't need to talk on it." "Well, maybe I need to think on it. Now you gonna just keep on talking or what?".