I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.

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.

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 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.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.

Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.

I think what you have to do is have a box office success in every genre and then you're set for life. And fortunately, I happened to do that, so I get a myriad of offers of various sorts.

It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.

The higher one climbs, the lonelier one is.

No diety will save us; we must save ourselves.

Somebody said, 'Roger doesn't know how to spend money.' And I thought, 'I don't spend money because I don't have it!' If I had it, I could spend money! That's about the only time I was told that!

There is only one religion in the world-hard work