Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.

Things are always better in the morning.

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

I don't hafta take his sass

I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you.

There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.