He wanted to think of words that would make some difference but there were none in any language he knew that were sufficient to the moment or that would change a single thing.

A girl is different. They want things. They need things on a regular schedule. Why, a girl's got purposes you and me can't even imagine. They got ideas in their heads you and me can't even suppose.

You have to believe in yourself despite the evidence.

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41.

Fame isn't healthy for a writer.

Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are.

My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated.

This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and the village idiot.

Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up.

This boy needs a dog.What makes you say that?He needs someone or something to play with besides his phone and an old man and an old woman doddering around.

One of the most difficult things he'd ever done was turn away and leave her standing in the shadows.

Sometimes you find a lie, and sometimes it finds you.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

It's kinda all about image.

Hillary Clinton wants to put all the miners out of business.

I have seen so many eruptions in the last 20 years that I don't care if I die tomorrow.

I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.

I feel so low that instead of picking myself up I have to cut others down.

The ideas behind the words are simple ones that work in everyday life; find what we most want to do; do it, no matter what; and in the doing be guaranteed a very difficult and a very happy lifetime.

Mix the the gas with the lean, call that gasoline