If we are facing in the right direction all we have to do is keep on walking.

Explaining a professor's emphasis on teaching over research: "She traded clinical questions with determinable answers for perennial questions with inexhaustible answers.

Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name?

Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.

He picked some unwise words. Saying, “I’ll enjoy killing you for my lord”, is just not the way to make my acquaintance.

I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.

You're the woman in my life,” he said. “Another thing about me and my brothers? We look after the women in our lives. We don't know any other way.

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.

Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.

I've never been monogamous. It might happen, but it never has yet. I don't understand women, I'm off that kick.