War’s all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now.

You tell a soul or even God Hisself what you seen when the rougarou changes, or even that you met one, and a year ain’t passed, you’re liable to change to one yourself.

Not having any drink about ain’t the same as not understanding the need for one. Times like these change a body’s perspective.

I don’t like coming over here at night, the girl said. The bayou is scary in the dark, all manner of things running wild out there.

Tastes change, Cherie. I find the older I get the more I like to be reminded of my youth.

I offer you your life, friend, and recommend you take it.

Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder.

Dead man shouldn’t have no fears. Makes his passing easier.

What one of us wants we all want. You a man of the earth as you are, you ought to have known we hunt in packs. And now I come to finish you.

She ran the harder and zagged more erratically, and in the wreckage left from the hurricane the girl misjudged her path and ran straight into the old well. She didn’t even scream.

You want a sermon? Jesus died and resurrected and then run off to Heaven to leave us sinners here. Amen.

Be careful mi amor, don't hurt anyone this time.

The sharp light of the stars and moon sliced away her misconceptions and pared down their layers until the feelings that had always existed between them lay bare.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which makes it certain that what they dread shall happen.

This world is for those who are born to conquer it, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer it, even if they're right.

If I am feeling broken, I can pick up one of [Ivy Compton-Burnett] books and the next morning I can write again. It puts my mechanism back.

But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.

Mobile will probably disrupt much of what we know of web 2.0.

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.