I was really interested in meeting Peter Coyote.

“I break things, a lot of things, but I don’t want one of them to be you.”

— Patricia Briggs

You have a coyote inside you and you have to get it out

— Chuck Jones

“Canis latrans,” Wolfenson finally remarked. Fincher furrowed his brow. “Latin for... barking dog?” “Yes, the coyote. They have a gift of making the howls…

— Richard Finney

“Coyote: A small canid (Canis latrans) native to western North America that is closely related to the American wolf and whose cry has often…

— Sherman Alexie

“Sometimes animals could not be reintroduced into the wild because they’d lost their ability to hunt, had come to rely on humans for food.…

— Annie Hartnett

This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean ― next stop China. The coyote…

— Richard Brautigan

Usually, the kills are almost Wile E. Coyote kind of things in horror movies.

— Jonathan Levine

I have the look every woman dreams of: Wile E. Coyote right after something's blown up in his face.

— Kristen Wiig

I could hear him laughing. Son of a bit*h. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was coyote or the son of…

— Patricia Briggs

“Never dare a Coyote. Ever. It was a law, even the council knew to never dare them. They always accepted a dare. They always…

— Lora Leigh

“She kept her ears permanently tuned to the chicken voices outside, so knew immediately when a coyote had crept into the yard, and barreled…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“At some point, Len was going to make a real pass at her, forcing her to make a real decision, and the game was…

— Gillian Flynn

“In a fall, you only start from zero velocity if your surname is Coyote.”

— Hyphatia Cneajna

“One more month," he said finally. "And then they—and Samuel, too—will just have to get used to it. His eye is the color of…

— Patricia Briggs

Most of the time when something goes bad—a marriage, a war, a run of good luck—you don’t know it. It’s like in the cartoons,…

— Mark Slouka