Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a pleasure.

When someone loves you, you are living in the most beautiful place in the earth, in the beauty of his or her mind. So enjoy it, even if it lasts for a moment.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant.

I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.

If one can't give what they have and share then they will always be empty

It's hard being the king, but somebody's got to do it.

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

You won't hear from me again.

Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.