I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.

Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.

Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.

The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

He unscrewed the lid, set it on the dash, snorted from the bottle twice, banged the steering wheel, and said, 'You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.'

Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again.

I said shut up once already, with my mouth.

This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.

The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.

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

Raise your love, raise it high. Don't let the world and its circumstances make you hate.

I felt like I was an arrow, pulled back and ready to be launched into something big.

Quit sharing bad news and gossip you aren't a garbage truck.

Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday’s news.

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't.

Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity.

Being English definitely gave me some insight into these eccentric Brits puttering around Hollywood.

Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn.

A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.