Quotes from Craig Johnson

We've never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we've done has been around a holiday - Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way to Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day.

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually producing the stuff worth reading.

I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.

A life without friends means death without company. (Adiskidegabeko bizita, auzogabeko heriotza.) —BASQUE PROVERB

Henry figured that the reason the Cheyenne had always ridden Appaloosas into battle was because by the time the men got there, they were so angry with the horses they were ready to kill everything.

It was the second time that day that I stood looking at a space where a large thing wasn't where it was supposed to be.

Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.

Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art.

Revolution is the industry of young men.

The place was packed as we flooded in, all the patrons freezing at the sight of an armed sheriff, two deputies, an Indian, and a construction worker; we probably looked like the Village People.

Henry figured that the reason the Cheyenne had always ridden Appaloosas into battle was because by the time the men got there, they were so angry with the horses they were ready to kill everything.

He mulled that over. Sheriff Connally woulda let us shoot 'em. I reached over and took his coffee away from him. Yep. Lucian probably would have done the job himself, but we're living in more enlightened times. I drained his cup and handed it back with a smile. Ain't it grand?

I don't know what the exact physical dynamics are that cause a shower curtain to attach itself to your body when you turn on the water but, since my shower was surrounded on all sides by curtains, I turned on the water and became a vinyl, vacuum-sealed sheriff burrito.

I should protect and cherish the young, the old, and the infirm, because at some point I would be all of these things before my own journey ended.

There are only three major vote getting days in Absoroka County, and I can't remember the other two. Oh God, no. It's Pancake Day. I thought about shooting myself. I could see the headlines: Sheriff shoots self, unable to face pancakes.

It was the second time that day that I stood looking at a space where a large thing wasn't where it was supposed to be.

cahoots being a legal term in Wyoming, see cahooting in the first degree, intent to cahoot, and so on.

I looked over at her; if women knew how good they looked in the dash light of oversized pickup trucks, they'd never get out of them.

I don't trust people who don't like animals. Hell, animals are the finest people I know.

It's only pre-marital sex if you plan on getting married.

She resembled Anna Karenina, the kind of woman that if you want to kill, you have to hit with a train.

Aristotle said that some minds are not vases to be filled, but fires to be lit.

Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.

A life without friends means death without company. (Adiskidegabeko bizita, auzogabeko heriotza.) —BASQUE PROVERB