What critics might call eclectic, and Eastern folks quirky, we Southerners call cussedness-and it's the cornerstone of the American genius. As in: 'T…

- James Sallis

Life sends us messages all the time - then sits around laughing over how we're not gonna be able to figure them out.

- James Sallis

Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmante…

- James Sallis

Time went by, which is what time does, what it is.

- James Sallis

He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible. Whatever he owned, either he could hoist…

- James Sallis

Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts…

- James Sallis

In the darkness things always go away from you. Memory holds you down while regret and sorrow kick hell out of you. The only help you'll get is a few…

- James Sallis

Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.

- James Sallis

The best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors.

- James Sallis