I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us.

I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much.

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all .... as long as you tell the truth.

Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.

I don't want to go to the heaven that I learned about when I was a kid. To me, it seems boring.

Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.