I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

Professional Southerners sicken me.

Literature is the history of the soul.

What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.

You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.

If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.

I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

A change in hairstyle gives a new look.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.

Passion is for holidays, not homecoming.

Movies and life become a little more symmetrical when you start asking for and looking for connections.

Friends come and go but banners hang forever.

When I say a vegan diet can be "the healthiest dietary option we can live by," I mean an informed vegan diet.

I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence.