“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
“I'd say the depths of his stupidity have yet to be plumbed, and yours is comin' up fast on the inside turn.” — Craig Johnson Stupidity Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think that it’s not our enemies that we resent in life, but rather friends we have who stood quietly by… — Craig Johnson Friend Copy Share Image
“nature hates a vacuum and strange things are drawn into empty places; sometimes oddities survive where nothing else can.” — Craig Johnson Empty places Copy Share Image
It was the second time that day that I stood looking at a space where a large thing wasn't where it was… — Craig Johnson Space 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
“Our society, our culture, and our humanity depend on never crossing certain lines,” — Craig Johnson Community 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
“When I hired him I told him two things: no man has any sense till age thirty-five and damn few afterwards . . .” “Amen… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in the distance, the synchronic circles of our pasts had tripped a domino, and the steady whirr had grown till it… — Craig Johnson Time Copy Share Image
“He studied me. “You were in Nam?” I nodded. “Yep.” He turned to Lolo. “Hey, Chief, how many Vietnam vets does it… — Craig Johnson 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 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
“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
“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
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 Copy Share Image
“Little known fact: offensive tackles score higher on the Wonderlic than any other position.” — Craig Johnson 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
“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 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
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
“It is another beautiful evening here at the Red Pony bar and continual soirée, how can I help you?” — Craig Johnson 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
