Henry figured that the reason the Cheyenne had always ridden Appaloosas into battle was because by the time the men got there, they were so angry with the horses they were ready to kill everything.

The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks.

It was the second time that day that I stood looking at a space where a large thing wasn't where it was supposed to be.

Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality life simply wears us out with love.

He mulled that over. Sheriff Connally woulda let us shoot 'em. I reached over and took his coffee away from him. Yep. Lucian probably would have done the job himself, but we're living in more enlightened times. I drained his cup and handed it back with a smile. Ain't it grand?

Revolution is the industry of young men.

A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.

Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art.

I looked over at her if women knew how good they looked in the dash light of oversized pickup trucks, they'd never get out of them.

A life without friends means death without company. (Adiskidegabeko bizita, auzogabeko heriotza.) —BASQUE PROVERB

If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.

I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually producing the stuff worth reading.

Temptation out of reach does you no good.