“slogans about smoking: “Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.” — Craig Johnson Cigarettes Copy Share Image
“It's only pre-marital sex if you plan on getting married.” — Craig Johnson Getting married 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
A life without friends means death without company. (Adiskidegabeko bizita, auzogabeko heriotza.) —BASQUE PROVERB — Craig Johnson Business 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
“Good friends are the ones who can remain close without losing their ability to” — Craig Johnson Friend 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
“looking at the piles around us—they were like literary land mines just waiting to explode minds.” — Craig Johnson Piles 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
“...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
“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
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
“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 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 couldn’t help but remember the one at my parents’ place after they had passed. I’d gone through their things and hadn’t… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“Motive and opportunity rode along like two out of four apocalyptic equestrians, grinning with their bony death heads at us lesser humans… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“I took the luxury of watching the crows playing tag above our heads for a moment more, the graceful arc of their… — Craig Johnson Bird 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
“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
“In a perfect cinematic world we would’ve captured the bad guys in spectacular fashion with explosions, car chases, and a parting kiss.… — Craig Johnson Bad guy Copy Share Image
“Few people knew the shadowy history of the Special Operations Group that had operated out of Laos, but the numbers said it… — Craig Johnson History Copy Share Image
“he knew all my caches and clichés—and pulled out an extra box of shells. “What other weapons do we have?” I started… — Craig Johnson 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 Copy Share Image
“Deal.” I reached down and put my empty cup on the porch railing. “Speaking of deals, do you know about the one… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“I leaned forward with my elbows on my knees and her book in my hands. Like a lot of things in my… — Craig Johnson Books 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
“Some fires can’t bear to dampen and can provide heat even from the distance of time. As” — Craig Johnson Fire 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
“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
“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
The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks. — Craig Johnson Anger Copy Share Image
“Aristotle said that some minds are not vases to be filled, but fires to be lit.” — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“As your trusted Indian scout, it is important for me to warn you that you are now on perilously thin ice” — Craig Johnson 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
“Thinking you’re not in trouble and not being in trouble are two different things.” — Craig Johnson Thinking 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
“She was classic Wyoming, that indiscriminate age between thirty and a hundred where the women find a comfort for themselves and just… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
I looked over at her; if women knew how good they looked in the dash light of oversized pickup trucks, they'd never… — Craig Johnson Light Copy Share Image
