Nuts don’t come in bunches. Only grapes do.

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.

They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.

Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

Catholics don't scream about Jesus, they scream about the bishop.

Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.

You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.

Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.--

If I kiss you now, I won't be able to stop.

All right, we need a way to get inot the palace. Any ideas?""Ask nicely? Charge in? Fly? Wait, do you mean reasonable ones?

I'm not a fan of baseball really.

I am still the fastest man on earth.

i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.

Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.

Your words are so powerful and precious. Learn to harness them, guide them and let them work for you.

I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.