I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer.

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.

One can travel the world and experience a lot of different things. But until all corners of the mind are openly explored does one gain deeper insight to the essence of living!~

You’re beautiful, just the way you are. Shine on. And dare anyone to turn off the lights.

God of mighty powers.God of great deeds.

But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.

A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.

Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.

Mr. Bush is flaky, incompetent, and the most dangerous American president in a generation.

Life is a school of probability.

Incompetence is often highly regarded in governmental circles.

Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime.