" ... just a conglomeration called Bobby Long." - Ronald Everett Capps, Off Magazine Street

“Byron wished he could have blamed it all on a war; a broken home during childhood, some terrible handicap, and make the reader of the book he would probably never finish believe that there was some good in Bobby. But the truth was more likely that, his friend, with all his sins and faults, with his unusual mind–enhanced or diluted with years of alcohol and too many thoughts–was neither good or bad, just a conglomeration called Bobby Long.” - Ronald Everett Capps, Off Magazine Street (from which A Love Song for Bobby Long was adapted)