Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my body did go to California.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have

When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.