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

The place was packed as we flooded in, all the patrons freezing at the sight of an armed sheriff, two deputies, an Indian, and a construction worker; we probably looked like the Village People.

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

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

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.

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

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

Temptation out of reach does you no good.

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.

If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses.

Dare to seek knowledge.

I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.

The miracles of life are love, faith and hope.

Be silent always when you doubt your sense.

Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.

Some people spend their lives failing and never notice.

The problem with trading dominant players of that size is you never get in return what you've bargained away.

I realized a career is built as much on what you don't do as what you do do.

I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.

Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this.