I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

Not all questions can be answered.

Jesus don't walk on water no more; his feet leak.

A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.