“...you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..”
“if you can't have the one you love, you can love the one you have”
“I want the dead to be deadforever.I don't want to be one of them,Except of course you can't be one of them.You can't be one of the deadbecause that which, has no existence can have no community.No community!My heart warms just thinking about it--blackness, aloneness,silence, peace,and all of it only a heartbeat away.[ The Sunset Limited - 2011 ]”
“Character and Plot...Character and PlotSome writers have it and some do notThis I'll tell you BrotherYou can't have one without the other”
“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.”