I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.

Didn't I say I'd always be your same stars? If you get to missing me, just look up.

That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness.

I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.

A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.

Perhaps the most important thing we can ever do in our lives is find a way to keep the wild-both the wild inside and the wild outside us-and tap into it.

Anger is its own excuse and its own reward.

I don't know if I would do sequels. I almost feel like when I'm done with them, they're going to have to find their own way.

Life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom.

I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.

I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.

All you need is love and joy.

Always we learn things and then we forget them.

Send these images of me through the internet out into the universe, where I will continue my out-of-body existence.

So many people want to die when all they need is to start living.

Eva [Braun] loved [Adolf] Hitler and he was the only man in her life. She flirted and danced with other men but never would she have done more than that.

I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.

[Hiking] is not that crazy, but when you look back and you see that mountain you just climbed, you say, "I can't believe I did that."

But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.

If I could be any famous person, I'd be John Wilkes Booth, because I'd love to shoot Abraham Lincoln in the face

The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.