“Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn”

“I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.”

“Meanness on request isn't meanness at all, but kindness carried too far.”

“The human body is strangely made and sometimes it pays not to think about it too closely.”

“Central Wyoming was like hell without the flames, an underworld thrust up onto the surface.”

“endless soaring toy-rocket dreams and schemes that let out a sad, weak 'pop' at their high climax point and then flake apart as they tumble toward some thorn patch that's also a hatching ground for baby snakes”

“Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.”