If you live on the railroad tracks the train's going to hit you, Grandpa used to say. — Brown Dog - Jim Harrison

He had always thought that a Native American should have shot Robert Frost for the outrageous lie of the line “The land was ours before we were the land’s.” What a scandal that would be, America’s best-loved geezer falling in a battle over poetry.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.