“Except for the camper and the trucks, it could be two hundred years ago, he’s pretty sure.” – Stephen Graham Jones, ‘The Only Good Indians’

“‘Why did you introduce yourself as a werewolf if that’s not what you identify as?’…’The simple fact is that the werewolf is more easily identifiable, iconic.” – Indra Das, ‘The Devourers’

“There are cases where the job possesses the man even after quitting time…it may affect his attitude towards all life. And art.” – Studs Terkel, ‘Working’

“But nothing has transpired, nothing that can be seen by anyone other than me. No one is looking at me…I start reading.” – Indra Das, ‘The Devourers’

“Werewolves, we didn’t come up eating french fries through the ages” – Stephen Graham Jones, ‘Mongrels’

“In all the stories and all the movies, there’s human footprints walking along, becoming wolf prints at the end. In the heaven of werewolves…just new grass…” – Stephen Graham Jones, ‘Mongrels’

“…if I’d used the hidden camera I’dve had things that I don’t have. But I’d never use it. I hate sneaky photographers. There’s no respect.”- Jill Freedman to Studs Terkel, ‘Working’

“I adore the work. It’s very comforting…Books are things that keep us going. Books—I haven’t got much feeling about many other things. I adore the work.” – Donna Murray to Studs Terkel, ‘Working’

“Drink a beer, read a book…I read on a weekend…during the weekdays, gee…don’t do that much reading from Monday through Friday. Unless it’s a horny book” – Mike Lefevre to Studs Terkel, ‘Working’

“Were it not God’s plan for His Chosen People in the Americas, the discovery of the consecrated land now known as Vine might be referred to as an accident” – the first line of ‘Vine’