I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.

I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm out, I'm out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. But I got used to it.

Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.

Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.