“he’s like a gun; once you point him and pull the trigger, it’s too late to change your mind.” — Craig Johnson Psychology Copy Share Image
“Never, but never, go sneaking around in your own house at odds with some stranger.” — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“She resembled Anna Karenina, the kind of woman that if you want to kill, you have to hit with a train.” — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“I was exercising by doing twelve-ounce curls in an attempt to balance my electrolytes.” — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“You will stand and see the good, but you will also stand and see the bad—the dead shall rise and the blind… — Craig Johnson Blind Copy Share Image
“a beautiful, intelligent woman with a body like Salome and a mouth like a saltwater crocodile.” — Craig Johnson Salome Copy Share Image
“Good friends are the ones who can remain close without losing their ability to” — Craig Johnson Friend Copy Share Image
“I don't trust people who don't like animals. Hell, animals are the finest people I know.” — Craig Johnson Animal Copy Share Image
“There are only three major vote getting days in Absoroka County, and I can't remember the other two. "Oh God, no. It's… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“Small chains wound their way through the trigger guards with little bronze locks at the end of each row. It was like… — Craig Johnson Guns Copy Share Image
“Vic interrupted. “Vann, Tim here was telling me about your wonderful talent, the one with dogs?” He turned back to me, nodding… — Craig Johnson Dog Copy Share Image
“I looked at the sky with its patchwork of sun and storm clouds—the devil must be beating his wife indeed. I bet… — Craig Johnson Marriage Copy Share Image
“The old cowboy Hershel, "You know what they say about a horse bein' only afraid of two things?" Walt, "What's that?" Hershel,… — Craig Johnson Cowboy Copy Share Image
“We do everything we can to protect the people we love, whatever it takes, and it's not enough. Unlike bone, once that… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“It was a two-gallon Styrofoam cooler - one of the cheap ones that you can pick up at any service station in… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“Justice.” She smiled again, but it quickly faded. “I’m surprised by you, Walt. I never thought of you as . . . as a vengeful… — Craig Johnson Justice Copy Share Image
A life without friends means death without company. (Adiskidegabeko bizita, auzogabeko heriotza.) —BASQUE PROVERB — Craig Johnson Business Copy Share Image
“His face remained immobile as he shut the door and walked back against the traffic. “No, they are not.” Dog immediately jumped… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“I thought about Maggie and how passion was a difficult thing to sustain, but that friendship had a pace that could go… — Craig Johnson Friendship Copy Share Image
A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“Some fires can’t bear to dampen and can provide heat even from the distance of time. As” — Craig Johnson Fire Copy Share Image
“...cahoots being a legal term in Wyoming, see cahooting in the first degree, intent to cahoot, and so on.” — Craig Johnson Crime Copy Share Image
“It is another beautiful evening here at the Red Pony bar and continual soirée, how can I help you?” — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“You keep going, and you hope for the best, and sometimes, maybe not very often, your hopes come true.” — Craig Johnson Hope Copy Share Image
“looking at the piles around us—they were like literary land mines just waiting to explode minds.” — Craig Johnson Piles Copy Share Image
“It all came down to judging—if you were a good judge of the man in front of you, you might survive; if… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“It’s never about who’s the fastest, strongest, toughest—it’s always about who, when everyone else would pause, will commit.” — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art. — Craig Johnson Art Copy Share Image
“Little known fact: offensive tackles score higher on the Wonderlic than any other position.” — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“Dog's ears went up at the word "ham": they say dogs have a vocabulary of about twenty words, and I was pretty… — Craig Johnson Animal Copy Share Image
“I sometimes forgot about how spiritual Henry was. I had been raised as a Methodist where the highest sacrament was the bake… — Craig Johnson Bake sale Copy Share Image
“stood at the door zipping, buttoning, fastening; it’s what people in Wyoming do before they go outside in late December.” — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“With more than thirty thousand suicides a year, the act is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States.” — Craig Johnson Death Copy Share Image
“Our society, our culture, and our humanity depend on never crossing certain lines,” — Craig Johnson Community Copy Share Image
“I watched as the silver Mercedes without snow tires made its way up Fetterman taking a right on Aspen and thought about… — Craig Johnson Concentration camp Copy Share Image
“Feeling he’d captured the throng, Trost decided to get literary. “Salus populi suprema lex esto.” She looked at me. “What the fuck… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“all her mother’s pains and benefits . . .’” She faltered, and I continued the Shakespeare for her. “‘To laughter and contempt, that she may… — Craig Johnson Children Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part… — Craig Johnson Peace Copy Share Image
“I hung back at the curb, but it's hard to go unnoticed when you are a powder blue vintage convertible with a… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“In my life, I have been kicked by horses and bitten by them. I've been stepped on, crushed against gates, and thrown… — Craig Johnson Animals Copy Share Image
