You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.

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

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

You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.

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?'

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