Joe Bob Briggs

Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.

There is no post-9/11. Everything from now until the end of time is post-9/11.

Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.