Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end.

I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.

It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.

A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.

But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

Humility is a virtue when you have no other.