My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.

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.

You have grace to live your dreams.

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

If you're a dancer, study singing.

I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.

The one constant in life is baseball

Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.

They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.