Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.

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.

What will you do today so tomorrow becomes the legacy you wanted to leave?

Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

I don't drink much anymore, because it's supposedly not good for me. I still have gallons of it around though. I smell the cork and do a lot of wishing.

Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

[Dmitry Bilozerchev] is a genius of gymnastics.

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

If at first you don't succeed, try management.

Without publicity there is no prosperity.