[Dennis] Etchison would write stories that were just punch lines at the end. You wouldn't realize something horrific was happening until the last paragraph.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.