Most People Like A Little

Gonna Rain Like A Cow Pissin' On A Flat Rock" [drugstore Clerk To Detective Virgil Flowers] Dark Of The Moon, P.7

I've Always Been Sort Of Interested In The Rural Countryside. Things Happen Out There That Are Very Strange To City Dwellers.

You Have The Feeling That If You Get A Pulitzer, You're Somehow Set For Life.

Well, I Am Becoming Doddering And Old But I Have - I'm Writing Two Books A Year Now. It's Like 220,000 Words Or Something Like Finished, And, Honest To God, I Can't Do That. I Really Do Need The Help Of, You Know, Other People Working With Me.

They Don't Have A Lot Of Crime In The Countryside Other Than Theft. But Every Once In A While, Things Turn Ugly, And When They Turn Ugly, They Turn Very Ugly.