A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.

Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

No one who is young is ever going to be old.

You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world

There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.