It was a two-gallon Styrofoam cooler - one of the cheap ones that you can pick up at any service station in the summer season and then listen to it squeak to the point of homicidal dementia.

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.

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

We, the human race, are so accustomed to having instead of being. What wastage of the revelations and magic in every moment.

True progress happens slowly, unnoticeable, like a flower blooms slowly and silently.

The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

The sea is the universal sewer.

Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.

I don't think I'm a great singer myself. I'm all right. I've worked with different writers, different producers... I've just been blessed with the caliber of people I've been able to work with.

Nature expresses a design of love and truth.

My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.