I’ve always said to people, "I don’t care what you call me as long as the checks don’t bounce and the family gets fed." But I never saw myself that way. I just saw myself as a novelist.

I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us, guess what, you're going to live forever, you're going to go to some other plain where you're going to be so happy, you'll just be happy all the time, which is also kind of a scary idea to me.

I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much.

You know," Glen Bateman said, looking out toward Grand Junction in the early light of morning, "I've heard the saying 'That sucks' for years without really being sure of what it meant. Now I think I know.

the look of the sky as the day's blue blood runs out of its cheek.

Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.

It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns.