When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you.

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.

I put a knife in your hand and your first instinct was to stab me.""You tried to stab me first, " I objected without thinking.

I want the world, I think. Even if it scares me.

There is no Christianity unless first there is repentance. And it is not just, “Well, I am guilty.” It is not just a conviction. It is a conviction plus a desire to turn away from those things.

I look back on my life like a good day's work it is done and I am satisfied with it.

Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.

When I get the chance to make my favorite breakfast on the weekend, I often choose to make pancakes.

When I drank, I'd be happy for 10 minutes. When I got high, I'd feel a sense of nothingness for about an hour. But in the end, my negative emotions always came rushing back.

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.

Fix your course on a star and you'll navigate any storm.

Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.