You can't catch somebody doing something when they're not hiding.

How could I pretend to be a victim when I was so willing to sin?

Maybe I still haven't become me. I don't know how you tell for sure when you finally have.

I just liked girls because I couldn't help not to.

I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous--the height of the trees, the hush and tick of the forest, the shift of the sunlight and shadows--but also so, so removed.

But I couldn't ever make that dream happen. It just came on its own, the way dreams do.

It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all.

In that moment I was as jealous of her getting to leave Montana as I'd ever been of anything or anyone in my life.

The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson.

...when I closed my eyes and saw her drinking tea and opened them and still could see her, and I wanted so much to see more.

I'm ain't crazy to be normal

I have taught you my dear flock for above thirty years how to live and I will show you in a very short time how to die.

Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs.

Justice from Love, and Love from Justice

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy.

And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move quickly.

Anyone who's ever tried to tangle with a teddy bear cholla knows there's a whole lot more bear than teddy to it.

But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

I've always been a fan of Andy Kaufman.

War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.