Quotes from Jack Butler

I have more faith in my God than to believe He would give me a mind and then ask me not to use it.

That's the trouble with innocents. They aren't innocent of doing, just of knowing what they're doing.

Life kept you busy fighting off troubles, and you looked up, and the best parts of your life were gone.

I guess we ought to be tolerant, Lianne said. They're just nasty because they need help. Everybody ought to be allowed to try and help themselves. No, ma'am, that aint true, Sarah said. Some people ought to be shot on sight.

A Mississippi summer is an awesome and boggling thing, a slab of steaming time, a hundred cubed: a hundred days at a hundred degrees and a hundred percent humidity.