I offer you your life, friend, and recommend you take it.

You tell a soul or even God Hisself what you seen when the rougarou changes, or even that you met one, and a year ain’t passed, you’re liable to change to one yourself.

Not having any drink about ain’t the same as not understanding the need for one. Times like these change a body’s perspective.

I don’t like coming over here at night, the girl said. The bayou is scary in the dark, all manner of things running wild out there.

Tastes change, Cherie. I find the older I get the more I like to be reminded of my youth.

War’s all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now.

Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder.

Dead man shouldn’t have no fears. Makes his passing easier.

What one of us wants we all want. You a man of the earth as you are, you ought to have known we hunt in packs. And now I come to finish you.

She ran the harder and zagged more erratically, and in the wreckage left from the hurricane the girl misjudged her path and ran straight into the old well. She didn’t even scream.

You want a sermon? Jesus died and resurrected and then run off to Heaven to leave us sinners here. Amen.

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice.

We always need a sound reason to move on, and we always pretend to have it.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.

I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.

If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.

The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.

Adrian's new research partner stepped through the door, and I knew the uneasy peace we'd just established in Palm Springs was about to shatter. Dimitri Belikov had arrived.

Art is a personal act of courage.