There was no one, when I was in school, who talked about going in and blowing up students. The teachers were very stern and hateable, but nobody ever mentioned murder.

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.

Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, "Listen to this!"

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

The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.

I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a myth. There's so much bad gun stuff.