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.

With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.

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

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

Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.

Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.