138 Quotes by Joe R. Lansdale

Over-confidence is the way to give your soul to the devil an inch at a time.

The logic of a madman is a sane man’s confusion.

I love Hap and Leonard and plan to write more about them, but not exclusively about them. I have always worked in film, or since the eighties, but my screenplays – though I got paid and did screenplays for Ridley Scott and John Irvin and Mark Romanek – seldom got made.

Hallowed be thy name, oh Lord – and shotgun do your stuff.

I’m not poor now, but unlike some of my friends who are now rich, I haven’t embraced conservatism and religion. I’m not opposed to religion if you keep it out of my life.

There’s no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.

I wouldn’t choose conscientious objector and I wouldn’t go to Canada. I did what Hap did and almost went to prison. I think the threw me a bone as the war was winding down, and I think they accepted my sincerity for being against that war.

Let me tell you, if you have never seen an agitated squirrel you have seen very little, nor have you heard much, because the sound of an angry squirrel is not to be forgotten.

I know the Pollock novel. Read it last year and liked it. Daniel Woodrell is awesome. I especially like the book Winter’s Bone, and the film made from it. Larry Brown is terrific, all his work, but for me Joe in particular, also a good film, but a much better novel.