Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.

You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.

They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.

Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7

I'm so horny the crack of dawn isn't safe.

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.