People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then?

To watch your home change in front of you is surprising. But at the same time, going someplace like Mississippi, makes me appreciate even this.

Don't trust women, my mother said to me. Even the ugly ones will take what you thought was yours.

I pay a lot of attention to whitespace. I pay a lot of attention to the rhythm of words together.

If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them." —Staggerlee

A lot of times, when people send me books to read - new writers mostly - I find that the book is still in a draft stage and that before it can leave the writer's hands and head to a publisher, it needs about five more revisions. Some people don't want to do that.