I chose to be Mrs. Johnny Cash in my life. I decided I'd allow him to be Moses and I'd be Moses' brother Aaron, picking his arms up and padding along behind him.

We got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout.

Our lives are entwined with the people over the footlights. We are a part of them.

Every dog has it's day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weakend.

I'm just trying to matter.

Inside that book, it's my life-all the places where I'm hurting or I laughed or I cried or I prayed. And I've had to pray a lot!

For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another.

I have always enjoyed being a part of his life. I've always loved him, and he's always loved me.

I've flown out of character so many times. In that sense I've been lucky, because I've been given the liberty to do just about anything I've wanted to do in my lifetime.

I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.

One should use common words to say uncommon things

Love? ... It's at the heart of every story.

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.

It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.

Some things just couldn't be protected from the storm. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once the old things were broken off, amazingly beautiful things grow in their place.

Wearing a pair of yellow shoes does not make you an interesting person, that is of course unless you've just murdered someone in them.