I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. [...] Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long, and four A.M.knows all my secrets.

If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.

Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.

I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home.