"Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view."
— Edward O. Wilson

"'Do you write novels?' I said.
'Novels, Lord no,' she said. 'I can't even stay married.'"
— Pam Houston (Waltzing the Cat)

""I just got gang-egged, or egg-banged or something."

--Sheriff Toots Burns. "
— Larry McMurtry (Texasville: A Novel)

"It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus McCrae"
— Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove)

"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak."
— Larry McMurtry (In a Narrow Grave : Essays on Texas)

"Woo woo, secret vampire stuff!"
— Charlaine Harris

"Then she (Queen Christina) stood with the Prince and grinned like a monkey and waved like a fucked-up prom queen while about a thousand flashbulb went off in her face.
"
— MaryJanice Davidson