The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.

Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow.

The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.

I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.