I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.
You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.
I'm real. I believe what I'm saying. If Motel 6 wasn't the type of operation they say it is - and I stay at them when I travel - I wouldn't do their commercials. That comes through on the radio, and that's what it's all about.
Even if everything else is downplayed, I'll wear good shoes.
I'm very friendly or whatever, but I would hardly say that I'm that cookie-cutter. I don't live in L. A. or New York. I live in Texas, and I go to hole-in-the-wall bars, so there's no paparazzi there.
There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye.
The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.