Ive tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

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.

Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.

I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.

Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely.

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

Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you.