"Ain't nothing but haunts, loonies and retards."
       Delbert Workman, Chattaroy, West Virginia

"Good stuff, there's no boring paragraphs to read."
       freshman at Marshall University

 "A desperate people, the mountains laid waste around them."
       columnist, the Appalachian Reader

 
  "Great theater!  Tennessee Williams on laughing gas."
       dramaturge, The Blue Ridge Theater

"Where's Jesus in all this?"
       Reverend Bledsoe, War, West Virginia

"Around here, ain't no mountains left."
       Claud Willis, Blair, West Virginia

 "When we lost western Virginia, we lost our poetic soul."
       professor of English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

"I ain't kin to none of these people!"
       Clair Marie Dickens, Gauley Bridge, West Virginia

"Can't anybody in West Virginia speak proper English?"
       reporter, the Richmond Gazette

"Nothing but perverts and horny old women."
       car dealer, Welch, West Virginia

"We was all screwed and tattooed in Vietnam."
       Albert Wall, Flatwoods, Kentucky

 "If that's not incest, I don't know what is."
       clinical psychologist, Ashland, Kentucky

"I'm not sure I like my heart broke while I'm laughing."
       sales lady at the Barboursville Mall

"Nobody gets out of their coffin or levitates, not really."
       funeral director, Mount Hope, West Virginia