“Boondocks' is simply the Tagalog word for mountains.”

“Oh, son, hardly anybody wants to leave. These mountains are more than just a place for folks around here.”

“Mountains have long-lost kinfolk on the other side of the Atlantic. The bloodline that marks that kinship is a vein of a green mineral called serpentine ...”

“The people who live happily ever after - they don't appear in the history books. They just fade away. I reckon that's what happiness is.Pauline Foster - " The Ballad of Tom Dooley ", Sharyn McCrumb, p. 271”

“Being a professional writer is a lot like being a hooker. You'd better find out if you're any good at it before you start charging for it.”

“The ones that landed near the bathroom are Bad Tolkien imitations or transcripts of a D&D adventure; bad Herbert, Heinlein, and Asimov are below the television; and these on the bed are the ones whose authors I want to hunt down personally and slap.”

“It couldn't be the beer. Donnie McRory was certain of that. If you sent American beer out to be analyzed, the lab would probably phone up and say, 'Your horse has diabetes.”