Some of my favorite lines/phrases from The Executioner's Song:
Wow, I'm shittin' in tall cotton now.
Judas was the most bum-beefed man in history. (p 527)
Carrion bird is getting it. (640)
The odor had all the stink of mortal loss (1031)
Ron noticed that everybody was taking cotton, so he stuffed some into his head. (983)
overworking the mine