"Mero and Rollo saw the mail route as a defection from the work of the ranch, work that fell on them." The Half-Skinned Steer, pg. 19

"The chute door swung open and the bull squatted, leaped into the waiting silence and a paroxysm of twists, belly-rolls and spins, skipping, bucking and whirling, powerful drop, gave him the whole menu." The Mud Below, pg. 43

"On his truck radio he hears that hundreds of religious cult members have swallowed Kool-Aid and cyanide." Job History, pg. 83

"Sheets pulled out a Bowie knife and sawed through Montana's shins just above the boot tops, put the booted feet in his saddlebags, admiring the tooled leather and topstitched hearts and clubs." The Blood Bay, pg. 92

"We are in a new millennium and such desperate things no longer happen. If you believe that you'll believe anything." People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water, pg...