Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

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.

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

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

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.

When you have too much faith in something, it's bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this way, all the world is a vampire.

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