What humor allows you to do is to let the past go with less pain. It's a healing element. It releases some of the pain from the shotgun wound.

There are two responses to really awful things. One is to lament and say, "Oh my God, oh lord." And the other is to laugh at it a little bit, try your best to deal with it and, if you can, forget about it as soon as possible.

The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.

I'm not interested in food. It's just fuel.

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.