Quotes from Craig Johnson

I thought about Maggie and how passion was a difficult thing to sustain, but that friendship had a pace that could go on forever.

Everybody in this county knows your flavor, Walt Longmire.

Some of us are not meant to cowboy-up

Seeing her again was like unearthing an emotional library card with a lot of overdues.

The old cowboy Hershel, "You know what they say about a horse bein' only afraid of two things?" Walt, "What's that?" Hershel, "Things that move and things that don't

Don't you think scars make better stories than tattoos?

In the great balancing equations of Dog's mind, there are two things he cannot resist - ham, and me holding open a vehicle door. I'm pretty sure that ham is first and the only reason me holding open a vehicle door is in the running is because it might mean that we are going somewhere to get ham.

Our society, our culture, and our humanity depend on never crossing certain lines

Scientists say there is a noise that snowflakes make when they land on water, like the wail of a coyote; the sound reaches a climax and then fades away, all in about one ten-thousandth of a second.

There are a number of smells I've loved in my lifetime, but few can compare with the smell of a bookstore.

cynic is the man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

slogans about smoking: "Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.

Jesus!" "Are you hurt?" "Jesus!" "Walk down the hallway and come back when you have more vocabulary.

I had warned her that lawyers shouldn't marry other lawyers, that it only led to imbecile paralegals.

Talking with people was more confusing than being confused by yourself.

Contrary to popular belief, there aren't that many descriptions of hell in the Bible, and the majority of images most people carry around in their heads are from the fourteenth-century poem, which means that our contemporary view of hell is actually from the Middle Ages.

Tell her how much you love her; everything after that is small talk.

the smooth, steady movement of my actions raised a sliver of panic in the rational man who was abandoning me.

That was the beauty of horse stealing, though—you could always ride your stolen property.

When you go to a dogfight, it's always good to bring the meanest bitch.

Makes you feel better when you shoot people . . . You ought to try it sometime.

It would be nice if life weren't so messy, but that's just not the nature of things; we want things to be perfect, but most of the time we just spend our existence cleaning up the messes we make—and sometimes the messes of other people, people about whom we care most in the world.

Cop tricks pale in comparison with mother tricks.

Sons, they have their own plans, but a daughter or granddaughter, they will love you forever and take care of you in your old age.