Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.

Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.

Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.

The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

He unscrewed the lid, set it on the dash, snorted from the bottle twice, banged the steering wheel, and said, 'You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.'

Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again.

I said shut up once already, with my mouth.

This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.

The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

There is no other enjoyment like reading

Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.

If you sought to leave the world, don’t go alone. Since there are too many bad people you can take them too.

Richard Wagner a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate and she is fate.

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

Normal people have nothing to forget.

Failure is an event, something that happens at a specific time on a certain day. If you want to be successful, you have to embrace failure and get back up every single time.

Barrons, Jericho: I haven't the faintest fecking clue. He keeps saving my life. I suppose that's something.

It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.