The megaselling books by celebrities are not so much books as products.

- John Berendt

Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.

- John Berendt

If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you go to church?" In Augusta they a…

- John Berendt

For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at lar…

- John Berendt

Someone once wrote that musicians are touched on the shoulder by God, and I think it's true. You can make other people happy with music, but you can …

- John Berendt

Nothing can be said, including this statement, that has not been said before.

- John Berendt

By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die, and bei…

- John Berendt

Two tears in a bucket. Motherfuck it.

- John Berendt

Loneliness is not being alone, It's loving others to no avail.

- John Berendt