I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the granite backbone of a continent. I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China.

He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.

Some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.