Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.

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.

The life and passion of a person leave an imprint on the ether of a place. Love does not remain within the heart, it flows out to build secret tabernacles in a landscape.

Another day without no rain, is another day of sorrow.And if it doesn't rain today, I hope it rains tomorrow.

I have no other possessions of value but my soul.

Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it.

Wherever Jesus may lead us, He goes before us. If we don't know where we are going, we know with whom we go.

There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?

It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

I can't write - out of all the things it takes to make music, lyrics are the thing I'm by far the shittiest at.

The imagination is fertile. From seeds of the imagination, much is made manifest.