Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

People fall in love, but have to climb out.

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.

If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.