Quotes from Craig Johnson

Well, he doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear,' but then he doesn't know the meaning of a lot of words.

Why the forty five." "Because they don't make a forty six.

one of my late wife's slogans about smoking: "Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.

Un pezzo di cielo caduto in terra

Kindness to a killer builds coffins.

The Basquos have an old proverb, 'a life without friends means death without company.

for sixty-one days." I began questioning the makeup of the negotiation team I'd brought with me to convince the chief of the Northern Cheyenne tribe that he should allow my daughter to be married at Crazy Head Springs. "Don't call the White Buffalo a joint; it's the nerve center of the reservation." My undersheriff, Victoria Moretti

Sometimes when there aren't any other options you should just stay crazy.

Sometimes all it takes is one small act of heroism to chart a new path for history

There was a lesson my mother had instilled in me at an early age, which had been reinforced by my experiences in Vietnam and by my twenty-four years as sheriff of Absaroka County. She said that 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.

Motive and opportunity rode along like two out of four apocalyptic equestrians, grinning with their bony death heads at us lesser humans as we fumbled along, refusing to believe the obvious.

In a perfect cinematic world we would've captured the bad guys in spectacular fashion with explosions, car chases, and a parting kiss. She would've been played by Ava Gardner, and I would've been played by Robert Taylor.

Lonnie smiled and nodded as Herbert repocketed the cutter and produced a chopped-down, brass Zippo lighter, the one that he had carried in the seventies in Vietnam. "St. Peter leaned down to the Crow woman and asked her if she had anything she wanted to say, and she told him that to her, there

in 1939 the official colors of scarlet and gold were adopted as the Corps standard, resulting in the flag we have today.

Hey, I try and have an open container with me no matter what state I'm in." She

We had reached the curb when honest to God a1959 pink Cadillac convertible pulled into view. It eased up infont of us and looked like pulsating puddle of peptol bismol.

As we started to turn and walk out, the big and easy Samoan reached over and touched Henry's shoulder, the arm attached having powered the biker's head into the drywall of the Rapid City Regional Hospital. "I know you?" The Bear smiled the one-crease-at-the-corner-of-his-mouth smile. "Momentarily.

Some buckle bunny's bed, I suppose.

Reports of missing persons have increased sixfold in the last twenty-five years, from roughly 150,000 in 1980 to 900,000 this year . . . More than 2,000 a day.

Few people knew the shadowy history of the Special Operations Group that had operated out of Laos, but the numbers said it all: For every American Special Forces soldier that was lost, the North Vietnamese lost between 100 and 150 troops. The Bear had been a part of one of the most effective killing machines on either side of the war.

had that feeling, not so much that I was falling, but that the world was receding.

We followed him to the cut bank of the river and watched as the underside of his truck suddenly became visible. The jump didn't get very far and, as anticipated, the wheels and most of the front of the Toyota sank into the soft mud of the Powder River effectively ending the vehicular portion of George's getaway.

You can now say the word shit on television." "Even broadcast television?" "There is no more broadcast television, Boss." I thought about the TV set back at my cabin that I hadn't turned on in a long while. "I wondered why mine had stopped working.

I figured if I was gonna die. I'd at least have my say.