Will your dad freak if I kiss you good-bye?” he asked.

And I’m not spying! I’m evaluating!”“It’s the same difference!

I barrel into his arms, my mouth connecting with his. Seizing him. Feeling him. Loving him.

Nothing fixes a thing so intently in the memory as the wish to forget it

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.

Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief

If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.

The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing.