I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, "Listen to this!"

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.

I just want to be loved, is that so wrong?!

If we cannot do what we will we must will what we can.

I would suggest that people do need to trust someone, to think they care about you. I believe that in my heart.

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.

You know, if you're lucky enough to have two smash hit shows, the traffic of the world goes through your dressing room.

For the person who wants to get to the mystical experience directly, Tantric Buddhism is the path.

He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit.

I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.

The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.