I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer.

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.

I love like a beaten child and I trust like an addict.

We don't love a woman for what she says but we like what she says because we love her.

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

I remember the first time I fell in love. That rush is just overwhelming and you don't think there's ever going to be anything like it.

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

I almost never get nervous. I have ice water in my veins.

Assassination's the fastest way.

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too

Five exclamation marks: the sure sign of an insane mind.