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.

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.

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

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.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)

Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.

Instead of past, present and future, I'd prefer chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.

I wanted to get in the ring and be like Muhammad Ali.

Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I

Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.

I have to be very aware of the increasing downside risks that threaten the overall global situation.

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.