I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie

As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

They had buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

So Jesus in the throes of his Passion is an image of hope: God is on the side of those who suffer.

All the makeup in this world can never cover up an empty brain.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

'I've got children', 'I've got wealth.' This is the way a fool brings suffering on himself. He does not even own himself, so how can he have children or wealth?

Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others

Jim Bakker ripped off the bedspread and said, my wife doesn't make me feel like a man anymore.

I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal

Prayer is the noble supplication which we lift up to the throne of the Most High. It is the most efficient means to obtain from God the graces which we need.

I was asked what I thought about the recession. I thought about it and decided not to take part.