My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

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.

I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.

What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were never meant to be, but because we were always meant to be?

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

We are a nation of shop keepers.

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

Tamaki = "If not spoiled constantly, he'll die" type.

What harm is there in making 100,000 people happy on a hot summer afternoon?

For every victory there is a price.

What about a blues in W, in the key of W.

The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.