“...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.”
“The soy is seeping through the material like a BP oil slick in a Louisiana swamp.”
“When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.”
“There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana”
“Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.”
“All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.”