Southwestern United States Quotes

I've always been interested in the Southwest. There isn't a place in the world you can go where they don't know about cowboys and Indians and the myth of the West.

El Paso is the final Wild, Wild West city.

I'm an Arizona boy.

I read recently that I was born in Arizona. I wasn't born in Arizona. I was born in New Mexico, but I can understand why people might confuse those two Southwestern desert states.

He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the desert should be, this was the desert of the picture books, with the land unrolled to the farthest distant horizon hills, with saguaro standing sentinel in their strange chessboard pattern, towering supinely above the fans of ocotillo and brushy mesquite.

We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.

I'm just a kid from El Paso, Texas.

A lot of the U.S. used to be part of Mexico, including Arizona. But they're a bit touchy about that right now.

I was born and raised in Phoenix.

'Bless Me, Ultima' is quite autobiographical in the sense that I was writing a story about my childhood, my hometown where I grew up, Santa Rosa, New Mexico, on Old Highway 66 and the Pecos River. So a great deal of that environment, landscape, people, got thrown in the novel.

The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s.

The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.

I loved Albuquerque! And we were there during monsoon season, which I didn't know was a thing outside of, like, the Far East.