Literature Is The History Of The Soul.

A Writers Job Is To Destroy And Then To Build The Thing Back Up Again By A Chosen Means.

I Don't Really Care About Plot; I Want To Have A Page-turner In A Different Kind Of Way.

I Distrust Thought. The Interior Life Is Highly Overrated. I Don't Like The Wispy And The Vague... Or Inductive Logic In Any Kind Of Writing. I'm Impatient With Writers Who Make Too Much Sense. The Better Things That I've Done Have Come To Me By Instinct.

When You're Not Involved, Other People's Unhappiness Seems To Be About The Funniest Damn Thing On Earth Because You Think You Can Solve It, That You Are God, That You Are Above This, And That Their Unhappiness Is Just Such Useless Toil And Agony. If It's You, It Ceases To Be A Comedy.

The Deep South Might Be Wretched, But It Can Howl.