The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.

It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing.

He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery.

A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.