Quotes from Ivan Doig

As I mounted the stairs, my lips silently tried out the two words "contrary warrior" together.

Certain of himself, confident of what he could make in his mind, going through life as if he had always a following wind.

without a basic good glass of beer, properly drawn and presented, a saloon was merely a booze trough. And

Upon the high seas is the wrong way of saying it, a horizon of ocean makes shallow the place of an onlooker.

I happily stepped into that role of librarian as bartender of information. Presiding over shelves of intoxicating items, dispensing whatever brand of knowledge was ordered up, I am sure I poured generously.

It is said it takes a good storyteller to turn ears into eyes, but luckily life itself sometimes performs that trick on us.

The saying is that what does not kill you strengthens you, but sometimes you wonder which will happen first.

It takes some real hard running to stay in the same place

But earth and heart don't have much of a membrane between them. Sometimes decided on grounds as elusive as that single transposable h , this matter of siting ourselves. Of a place insisting itself to us.

Was there even any way it sounded legal? The past casts a tricky shadow, I was discovering.

It is never good news when a parent resorts to your full name.

Language is the treasury of the poor.

on a ranch I believe I would have been called the choreboy.