Ross Rucker

“For when you can’t live life, you’re just burning life, sucking air and making turds. Perhaps it’s not age, but health that matters. Live long and healthy, it doesn’t matter. But live long and unhealthy, it’s a living hell. And here I lie. Not doing well at all. Only the past seems to matter now; only it seems to be alive; only it can support my soul.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, The Bottoms

“Old age and death were as wild and improbable as some drunken story about walking across the face of a star.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, Savage Season

“I put out the lamp, left Hog snoring, crept outside, and got some air, which was rich and sticky, like a sweaty horse shank, full of the sounds of cicadas and crickets and more than a few bleating frogs.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, The Thicket