All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.

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.

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.

Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground.

In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself.

Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.

You have my whole heart. You always did.