Catholics don't scream about Jesus, they scream about the bishop.
Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.
You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.
Nuts don’t come in bunches. Only grapes do.
When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'
Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7