“Ain't nothing wrong with shootin' folks, long as the right ones get shot” — Craig Johnson Amendment Copy Share Image
“Comforting to know that we’re the species that feels the most pain.” — Craig Johnson Comforting Copy Share Image
“There is no shame in it, becoming what your nature says you must be.” — Craig Johnson Nature Copy Share Image
“This is how it ends with everyone. You fall—you don’t get back up.” — Craig Johnson Ends 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
“stood at the door zipping, buttoning, fastening; it’s what people in Wyoming do before they go outside in late December.” — Craig Johnson Door Zipping 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
“It’s never about who’s the fastest, strongest, toughest—it’s always about who, when everyone else would pause, will commit.” — Craig Johnson Strongest 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 Good Judge Copy Share Image
“Little known fact: offensive tackles score higher on the Wonderlic than any other position.” — Craig Johnson Little Known 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
“Do what you’re trained to do and you might get out of this alive. Make the right decisions as if your life… — Craig Johnson Hesitate 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
“It would be nice if life weren’t so messy, but that’s just not the nature of things; we want things to be… — Craig Johnson Life 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
“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 Cicero 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
“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 Convertible 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
“Hey, there was this Indian woman hitchhiking back to the Rez in the middle of the night and this white woman picks… — Craig Johnson Marriage Copy Share Image
“He turned, and I followed him toward Rezdawg as Wiggins called after us. “Hey, when are you going to give me that… — Craig Johnson Going Truck Copy Share Image
If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be… — Craig Johnson Capable Copy Share Image
“It was my father who taught me to talk to animals.He said they understand a hell of a lot more than we… — Craig Johnson Animals Copy Share Image
“Life is like that.” He flipped through a few more limp pages. “You collect things as you go—the things you think are… — Craig Johnson Life Copy Share Image
“He swelled into the piece, his hand flat-hatting across the keyboard and thundering the lower notes like a trip-hammer. Finishing what I… — Craig Johnson Sad eyes Copy Share Image
“That family thing, it never lets up, huh? I mean, here I am two thousand miles from mine. I know I act… — Craig Johnson Family Copy Share Image
“The Cedar Man also began looking familiar, and I recognized him as Willis Weist, who had disappointed my mother; she had observed… — Craig Johnson Methodist Copy Share Image
“My undersheriff readjusted herself, the irony of her squeaking gunbelt underlying her next statement. “Who you wanna shoot?” He sat there under… — Craig Johnson Afternoon sun Copy Share Image
“There was a ruffling in the grass as the wind picked up, and Bambino sidestepped to the right and shook his head,… — Craig Johnson Friendship Copy Share Image
“Talking with people was more confusing than being confused by yourself.” — Craig Johnson Confused Copy Share Image
“I think insanity runs in the family. Hell, it practically gallops.” — Craig Johnson Family Copy Share Image
“When you go to a dogfight, it’s always good to bring the meanest bitch.” — Craig Johnson Bitch Copy Share Image
“slogans about smoking: “Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.” — Craig Johnson Cigarettes Copy Share Image
