“It's impossible to learn anything new when you're the one doing all the talking.”

“I never learned anything when I was talking.”

“i never learned anything while i was talking.”

“I didn't learn anything while I was talking.”

“. . . he had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren't. They only became so if one thought about them too much so that fear took over.”

“Talk's the way to kill it. Anything gets boring if you talk about it enough, even death.”

“You take what you're given, whether it's the cornfields of the Midwest or the coal mines of West Virginia, and you make your fiction out of it. It's all you have. And somehow, wherever you are, it always seems to be enough.”