Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three dollars and a bottle of Canadian whiskey to the man who puts on the best show. You've never seen such grief-- even the dogs were howling.

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.

Jacob: I've never seen so much manure. Wade: Baggage stock horses. They pack'em in 27 a car. Jacob: how do you stand the smell? Wade: what smell?