“If you live on the railroad tracks the train's going to hit you, Grandpa used to say. -- Brown Dog”

“Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, "Que pasa, baby?”

“If you added it up, without her there was nothing--but with her even the simplest of gestures of walking a bird dog in the desert, or selecting the ingredients for a meal for two rather than one took on an ineffable charm.(from the novella, Revenge)”

“It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.”

“Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.”

“Wherever we go we do harm, forgivingourselves as wheels do cement for wearingeach other out. We set this houseon fire, forgetting that we live within.(from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)”

“The world that used to nurse usnow keeps shouting inane instructions.That's why I ran to the woods.”