Where I live you're not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling.

Donkeys are the most misunderstood and abused animals around the world.

I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

I worked probably fewer jobs than most people, or fewer real soul-killing jobs than other people. I've been a typist, a typesetter, a keyliner, cappuccino-maker. I think I've been pretty lucky.

My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They're very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness.

As a writer, I can live somewhat independently, occupying nooks and crannies and finding meaning there. I can even live in my mind a good portion of most days.

A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old pickup trucks, and a pile of scrap metal.

I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.

Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar.

I grew up with donkeys, as well as horses, but I'm more interested in donkeys.

For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles.

Hey buddy, don't you be no square, if you can't find a partner use a wooden chair.

Intuition is what you know before you think.

Things might not get better but they might not get worse. There's something sort of beautiful about that.

The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.

Writing a book set in New Mexico was partially a way to express my own love for the state, and partially a way to prudently follow the advice to write what you know.

The prison keeper choose an inopportune time to look around the doorway into the cell. He and the king locked gazes, and the king's eyes narrowed while the prison keeper's widened.

The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.

The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.