31 Quotes by Michael McDowell

Grace began to understand. "I have friends," she protested. "I have Zaddie.""Zaddie is just a little colored girl," Mary-Love pointed out. "It's all right to play with Zaddie, but she's not your real friend. John Robert can be your real little friend.

No mother and daughter in Perdido were closer than Mary Love Caskey and Sister. But it was not to be supposed that either told the other everything she thought or knew. In fact, each of them liked to keep little secrets from the other. Secrets which could be sprung at some opportune moment to produce a grand effect, rather in the manner of a little boy tossing lighted firecrackers beneath his sister's bed while she napped on a hot summer afternoon.

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

People in Berkeley are suckers for a cause. They're really willing to put their hands where their hearts are.

I might be at the top level of sports cars now . . . but I can't drop down and start over. The next thing would be a jump to the trucks, Busch Series, Nextel Cup or Champ Car.

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.

Being that we get full points is huge. It's just as important as the race (today).

The notion of a return to an armed struggle really hasn't been on for a long, long time,

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.