I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.

Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed

The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.

Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.

What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.

Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.

As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.

Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.

I feel so sorry that many Christians live in bondage even though Jesus has signed their release form with His own blood.

Their pull was undeniable, like fireworks on top of flaming bonfires.

Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians become as soon as they get the job.

What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it".

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Fundamentally, I like to accomplish things.

I believe in libertarian options because they allow an interesting management of the capital and are based on co-operation, reciprocity, contract, federation.

There's nothing I'm particularly keen to hide about my humanity.