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

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

Catholics don't scream about Jesus, they scream about the bishop.

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

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.

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

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