My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.

Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em.

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.

It seems to me Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is huge but not overpowering. The land is rich with grass and color, and the mountains are the kind I would create if mountains were ever put on my agenda.