The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.

That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.

Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.

If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In Swedish, he could only converse on the darkest of subjects.

Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?