". . . I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you are what you have been, where you flame out on the edge of the spheres, and the sun and moon becom..."
- James Lee Burke
"And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place."
"Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity."
"Some people say you pick up the Dirty Boogie where you left it off. Others say you pick it up where you would have been had you never gotten off it."
"But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually degraded and demoralized and in whom he had left his seed so their bastard children would be a daily..."
"I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the chil..."
"writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover's quarrel with the world. It's o..."
"As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else."
"If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin."
"...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven."