Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.

...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the box. We can only live in terms of the definition, like the prisoner in the cage in which he cannot lie or stand or sit, hung up in justice to be viewed by the populace. Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selfness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?

All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

For whatever you live is life.