Nuts don’t come in bunches. Only grapes do.

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

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

Most people like a little sex in their novels.

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

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?'

Nuts don’t come in bunches. Only grapes do.