There was no one, when I was in school, who talked about going in and blowing up students. The teachers were very stern and hateable, but nobody ever mentioned murder.

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.

[A] practitioner of any spiritual path must have complete confidence that his adopted path is, for him, superior to all others. (57)

We pretended to be of mud instead of stars. We pretended not to fly.

Then how about this: Remember Austin Gollaher, because what we do matters, even if we don't end up in history books.

Fair warning, baby. I’m in the mood for a fight, and I wouldn’t play fair or nice.--Niall Hunter to Khloe Richardson

Be loving and kind to everyone.

You will honor my mother or I will break this bottle over your head

It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body

I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.

Clearly, we are very, very concerned about the situation, for instance, that has been going on in Gaza.