You might be a redneck if you can tell your age by the number of rings in the bathtub.

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.

You know you're a redneck if your home has wheels and your car doesn't.

You might be a redneck if...your belt buckle weighs more than three pounds.

Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.

If your idea of a 7 course meal is a bucket of KFC and a sixpack, you might be a redneck.

You might be a redneck if your grandmother can correctly execute the sleeper hold.

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.

You might be a redneck if going to the bathroom involves shoes and a flashlight.

A short poem from my book:PerspectiveOf coursethere is a hellshe saidand it hasan observation deck

There really was no point in having vision that didn't revolve a full 360 degrees because it was usually from behind that life would sneak up and overtake you.

I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.

Be yourself, know your power, have confidence in what you have to contribute.

Familiarity breeds complacency.

by making himself a priest made himself a demon.