Professional Southerners sicken me.

What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.

I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.

I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer.

Literature is the history of the soul.

I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.