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

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

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.

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?'

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