We've never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we've done has been around a holiday - Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way to Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day.

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.

But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

The meaning of good and bad of better and worse is simply helping or hurting.

I don't have the best dating track record.

Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.

I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.

In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.

Eventually you get bored and you want to work.

Man is a dream about a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him from God, a glory comes to him and his life is sweet.

I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job.