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

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.

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

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.

Got a lot of sinful idears--but they seem kinda sensible.

We all know how 'modern democracies take loaves from the wealthy.' It's the slipups in the 'pass them out to the poor' department that inspire a study of Economics.

Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.

The more fear confrontational activism can put into the heart of the political class, the better.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

The deeper I went into culture, the more confused I got. So I needed something more real. I said, "Okay, from now on, my country will be cinema."

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

O constancy, be strong upon my side, Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue! I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.