I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.

If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.

Preacher to me: 'A dollar for the Lord, brother?' Me to preacher: 'That's all right, I'm headed his way. I'll give it to him when I see him.'

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.