Quotes by Michael McDowell

“Obviously the time has now come -- and it has long since come -- where the glare of publicity is on this issue,”

“The notion of a return to an armed struggle really hasnt been on for a long, long time,”

“It was a struggle,”

“My goals are high,”

“People in Berkeley are suckers for a cause. Theyre really willing to put their hands where their hearts are.”

“will provide a greater test over a longer period of the extent to which the Provisional movement (Sinn Fein and the IRA) has abandoned criminality in all its forms.”

“I might be at the top level of sports cars now . . . but I cant drop down and start over. The next thing would be a jump to the trucks, Busch Series, Nextel Cup or Champ Car.”

“The last few laps were a lot of fun and we had some real battles out there. We lost the ABS system during the race so that made the infield sections a real handful but we had a lot of fun out there.”

“Being that we get full points is huge. Its just as important as the race (today).”

Someone once asked me what I thought horror fiction did. What its purpose was . . . I replied that when I wrote horror fiction, I tried to take the improbable, the unimaginable, and the impossible, and make it seem not only possible--but inevitable.

That her niece should find such profound pleasure in the company of a thirteen-year-old black girl--and, more to the point, always within the precincts of Elinors house--was a slap in Mary-Loves face. She decided, without saying anything more to James, to wreck Graces perfection of happiness. Grace would learn that she, Mary-Love, was the source of all felicity within the Caskey family.

Mary-Love liked to see herself as the family cornucopia, dispensing all manner of good things, unstintingly, unceasingly. She considered herself amply rewarded by her childrens gratitude, and if she perceived that her children were not sufficiently grateful, she could make something of that, too.