Quotes from Craig Johnson

Justice." She smiled again, but it quickly faded. "I'm surprised by you, Walt. I never thought of you as . . . as a vengeful person." "Pharisaic, I think, is the word you're looking for.

Comforting to know that we're the species that feels the most pain.

The Reading Terminal Market on 12th and Arch was created in 1892 when the Reading Railroad opened markets below the elevated tracks of the new train shed. It had consistently housed an undetermined amount of aromas since then by creating a gastronomic bazaar conveniently located at street level.

He jumped in the bed and I closed the tailgate twice because, of course, the first time it didn't line up. Vic rolled down the driver's-side window of my truck. "You're going to be all right up here playing cowboy with the Indians?

because I wanted to

It was one of those late summer days that sometimes showed up in early October after a killing frost—warm, dry, and hazy; Indian summer. The term is over two hundred years old and was first coined by the French American writer John Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur in 1778, describing the warm calm before the winter storm.

Ha-ho, it is another wonderful day at the Red Pony bar and continual soiree.

Sit down, you're puttin' a crick in my neck.

I just don't understand any of it. I guess I've fought so hard to keep my life that I can't conceive of a situation where I'd voluntarily give it up.

Bubba the Sheep Squeezer in

Moving to the trailer, I watched as the Bear used a shiny cloth to remove what dust had collected on the Indian motorcycle. "Why do people ride these contraptions anyway?" He checked the tie-down straps, and stood "Freedom." "Freedom to be an organ donor."...

It was one of those late summer days that sometimes showed up in early October after a killing frost—warm, dry, and hazy; Indian summer. The term is over two hundred years old, coined in 1778 by the French American writer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur to describe the warm calm before the winter storm.

A butte is taller than it is wide, whereas a mesa, like this one, is wider than it is tall.

Walt, the guy is Professor Moriarty—he's leaving bodies around like the Black Plague.

50 percent of police shot in the country on an annual basis shoot themselves. I'm not talking about suicide, but about officers who accidentally fire into their off-hand while drawing or into the strong-side leg while reholstering. Another 30 percent are shot by other cops, and 10 percent after that get shot by people who take their weapons away from them.

Just being near the Éveohtsé-heómÄ—se cost me eight hours of my life. The old ones call it the Wandering Without, the nothing, the thing that takes and never gives.

He was a drunkard.

You can convince yourself that you're on solid ground and nothing's going to happen to you up to this point, but when you have nowhere to look but down, the game changes. I had the benefit of not being able to see very far, but it was as if the dancing flakes snapping into the distance and disappearing from view were pulling at me, reaching and trying to take me with them into the darkness.

As she stood there, she looked to the north where there seemed to be another road, but not really a road, more like a snowplow had suddenly gone rogue and wandered off to die alone and away from the herd.

Little known fact: offensive tackles score higher on the Wonderlic than any other position.

Do what you're trained to do and you might get out of this alive. Make the right decisions as if your life depended on them, because it does. Hesitate and you hesitate forever.

There is no shame in it, becoming what your nature says you must be.

Mark Twain's adage: thunder is impressive, thunder is loud, but it's lightning that gets the job done, even in one-mile-an-hour increments.

I wanted to talk to her about Virgil's prophecy.