He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

I've always been interested in the Southwest. There isn't a place in the world you can go where they don't know about cowboys and Indians and the myth of the West.

I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.

Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.

People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.

Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.