That’s what you people do, isn’t it? Make assumptions and sell them to impressionable idiots.

In our house we say ‘adolescence’ is a western word. We don’t believe in it.

The hand at her back stroked up and down. Never straying too far south, but igniting a fire inside her that she wanted this fireman to stoke instead of extinguish

He loves deep… hates hard, ever’thing’s that killed what he loves. All great warriors are sich men.

Let them come. We’ve got helicopters, tanks, jets, and big guns. We’ve got armies of robots. What do they have but their stench and the squalor they live in?

The new enlightened self-understanding reminds us that there is no final destination to our journey. The process itself is the destination. There is nowhere we need to arrive to.

SUN, MOON, AND STARRY SKYEarly summer evenings, when the first stars come out, the warm glow of sunset still stains the rim of the western sky.Sometimes, the moon is also visible, a pale white slice,...

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

As far as I know, there’s nothing more dangerous than a man who doesn’t care if he lives or dies.

…’Well, I think of you as a straight shooter, Sheriff, but one who can’t stop lustin’ after the goddamn ineffable.'”She said that, hunh?””Yup.””Shitfire, Sheriff, what’d you do?””Well, I shot her.

We’re not a people worth saving, plain and simple. We’re completely beyond that—both the undead and the few still living. Yeah, ‘living.’ Some life, huh? But it’s the only life we could ever possibly live...

We need to keep government small, but we also need to keep the influence of big business small, and we need to keep the power in the hands of the people, where it belongs. Big...

In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts… it’s just accepted. And in Western culture it’s just not.

Boy oh boy, this man is trouble. He was slowly tearing down the wall she’d built around her heart, brick by brick. Could any man be this perfect? He must have some faults. Maybe he...

What you mons making all the racket about? You wake me again and I’ll put the voodoo hex on you. All you only call me Tuberculosis behind my back now. You want the real thing?”...

That was a double negative, Jemail. By saying that you haven’t seen nobody, you’re actually saying that you have seen somebody.

When I envied a man’s spurs then they were indeed worth coveting.

Jack glanced toward the dressing room, not believing that all the time he had been with her, she had been half-naked…

I’m from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.

Our world must be hell, then. It must be the hell of some other place where all of us committed atrocious sins of some sort, and now we’re stuck here until we die and either...

The great western error about the Taliban is to assume homogeneity.

But I don’t know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

We don’t want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off.

There is no better place to heal a broken heart than on the back of a horse.

Snuggle up with a hot fireman! Meet Tanner West.Sharon looked up into the most gorgeous face she had ever seen. Eyes like dark chocolate, deep and warm, stared out at her from a face that...

Gentle With Them Thar Spurs’—a sequel to ‘Riders of the Purple Sau-Sage.’ Spurs was the feminist novel of its day…which was Tuesday.” —Bats 2015

We all end up dying in the end. It’s just a question of how and when.

It is not an unusual life curve for Westerners – to live i n and be shaped by the bigness, sparseness, space clarity & hopefulness of the West, to go away for study and enlargement...

Many lessons can be learned from the history of Western civilization, but one of them is especially clear. Lack of involvement in the affairs of one’s society can lead to a sense of powerlessness. In...

Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.

People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don’t believe globalisation is bad. It’s criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it...

Jackson couldn’t bear to see Allie like this. He pulled her to him and, dropping his mouth to hers, kissed her. She leaned into him, letting him draw her even closer as the kiss deepened....

It was one of those dreams from which she woke up depressed about her reality, filled with a longing that pulled at her insides, wishing the dream could have lasted forever, or at least much...

Keep a spur handy.

Sharon looked at Aaron and smiled. She’d made the right decision, hadn’t she? Would she come to regret this decision too? She’d made so many mistakes in the past. Was this another one? No, self-doubt...

By not burning their poppy fields to the ground but instead maintaining a security umbrella that international development agencies could safely work under as they improved these ordinary people’s lives, we would win their ‘hearts...

You’ll find a way. You’ll always find a way. And on the rare occasions when you can’t, you’ll have friends who will.

I am a genre lover – everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

Whoa!” She looked so cute, but vulnerable, too. He closed the arm around her shoulder, squeezing her sideways to his chest. Embarrassed, she smiled as she elbowed his rib. Then she dropped her arms and...

It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, ‘He was a man who didn’t believe in violence, He’s a good man… and dead.

The exaltation of human reason and its capabilities, a commitment to rigorous and rational debate, a promotion of intellectual inquiry and scholarly exchange–all sponsored by the Church–provided the framework for the Scientific Revolution.

I know what you’re up to.””I doubt that.” Hayes leaned toward her, his hand looping around the back of McKenzie’s neck as he gently drew her to him. “Because if you could see what I...

People didn’t love all of this when they still had it. If you love something, you do what’s best for it. You don’t destroy it.

You’re a lady. It’s written all over you, but the West doesn’t forgive any woman-unless she’s got a man.

She loved her son and wanted him to make a fresh start here. Her ex-husband always tried to pass Aaron off as normal, not wanting anyone to know his son was different. She wasn’t going...

And then you realize one day that you can’t remember her scent and nothing smells like her anymore. You can’t remember how she feels or the sound of her voice. You haven’t thought of her...

Everyone has the right to believe whatever he or she wants. Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Pagans, atheitsts, and every other religion. People can follow whichever they choose. Even if you and I believe Christianity is the...

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

All I really want to do is someday be in a western. If I could be on a horse with a rifle, I would be a really happy camper.

he had offered some of his own background. A youth in the South. An education in the North. Bred for life in the East. Trying not to die in the West.