Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

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.

The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

You can't change things. That's life. Poor stays poor, rich says rich, and those two, they will never meet.

It is your life, accept the responsibility.

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

I could do great things, if I weren't so busy doing little things.

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

I am a liberated teacher. A person who meditates with me, even though they may be thousands of miles away, will draw that light into them.

NRA - Nuts Running America.

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?