A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant.

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.

Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.

To the heavens on the wings of a pig.

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.