“Little known fact: offensive tackles score higher on the Wonderlic than any other position.” — Craig Johnson Little Known 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Life Copy Share Image
“It's only pre-marital sex if you plan on getting married.” — Craig Johnson Getting married Copy Share Image
The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks. — Craig Johnson Anger Copy Share Image
“Lucian spoke. “Isaac, I gotta get out of here.” He gestured toward me. “The current sheriff and full-time layabout and his redskin… — Craig Johnson Sheriff Copy Share Image
“He looked at me. “If I were a creek, I would be where the ground slopes.” “Right.” Sometimes it was good to… — Craig Johnson Creek Copy Share Image
“don’t care how big they are, boys; they can’t do anything if you get ’em up off the ground.” — Craig Johnson Boys Copy Share Image
“the smooth, steady movement of my actions raised a sliver of panic in the rational man who was abandoning me.” — Craig Johnson Anxiety Copy Share Image
I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful… — Craig Johnson Approach Copy Share Image
“I think there was an awful lot about him that I thought I knew, but the truth was I was just coloring… — Craig Johnson Relationships Copy Share Image
“Never, but never, go sneaking around in your own house at odds with some stranger.” — Craig Johnson House 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
“I thought about how we tilled and cultivated the land, planted trees on it, fenced it, built houses on it, and did… — Craig Johnson Land Copy Share Image
We've never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we've done has been around a holiday - Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way… — Craig Johnson Done Copy Share Image
He mulled that over. "Sheriff Connally woulda let us shoot 'em." I reached over and took his coffee away from him. "Yep.… — Craig Johnson Coffee 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 Oh god 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 People We Love 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
“It was a two-gallon Styrofoam cooler - one of the cheap ones that you can pick up at any service station in… — Craig Johnson Cooler 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
“My eyes closed again for what I thought was only a moment and when I opened them she was gone and a… — Craig Johnson 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
“looking at the piles around us—they were like literary land mines just waiting to explode minds.” — Craig Johnson Psychology 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
“Some fires can’t bear to dampen and can provide heat even from the distance of time. As” — Craig Johnson Fire 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
“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
