I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.

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.

Daydream. Because you can't accomplish what you've never fully imagined.

Human Angels are beacons that simply being who they are, illuminate the darkness, to help those who are still on the path to stay the course.

The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory.

I don't race a lot, half a dozen (races) a year maybe.

if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

The one thing I will never do is buy a shirt because of its name, especially when it's $600 for that shirt. To me, that's ridiculous. It's just a shirt; it's not worth the money.

Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.

I can remember when Pulp Fiction came out. I was, like, 10 years old. But I remember the impact that it had.

When you meet somebody who is vulnerable, there is an attraction. There is something to that. There is beauty there.

I came from a very strict background. [So if you want to make a scary movie] if you were raised as a fundamentalist, just pull all the skeletons out of your closet.