Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.

If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out on one half of life.

The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

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.