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.

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.

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

In the end, the British didn't vote to leave because of the euro. They're not even members of the currency union. Even the refugee crisis hardly affected the country.

In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem.

Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.

Love means having something to betray.

Great morning prayer is like marinating in the Holy Spirit.

Most people don't have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.

Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

A rental car is basically an ashtray on wheels.