“I remember going to a theater once, and there was a stairway that woun...” — Joe R. Lansdale Quote

“I remember going to a theater once, and there was a stairway that wound its way out to the back. And I was very young, a small child, and I said to my mom, 'Why are those people going up those stairs?' And she said, 'You know, I don't know how to tell you this, I don't know how to explain it, but it won't always be that way, because it's wrong.'”

“Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up.”

“The simple fact is, the more people who buy your books, the more are likely to read you. That's what I'd like to see happen.”

“I'm a freewheeling flower-child falling down the stairs constantly.”

“I like to run, to go down the stairs, I'm one of those kind of people.”

“When I was 20-something, 30, I fell down a flight of stairs and hurt my back. I went to a therapist who said don't get out of bed until you do certain stretches, and I've been doing them ever since. I guess I'm the original yogi.”