No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. Ions might charge the air but they fell flat when it came to charging the imagination - my imagination, anyway.

I can't promise I'll never kill anyone again," he once said, strapping a refrigerator to his back. "It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be in a story. She was worried people thought I didn't like her.

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.