Its the map of my childhood, my sadness, my Eden, my hell and home. when I look at it now, my heart swells with gratitude, then shrinks with disgust.

Reiterating other people's hopes, dreams and fears. That's what politics is all about.

Strangers can be consequential when you want to practice an atrophied or unexplored facet of you, as they don’t know how you usually act.

Stay strong. Don't worry about things you cannot change and don't worry about things changing that you cannot stop.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.

That one tickled. If electrocution is your way of flirting, I commend you on your originality.

I'm all about the crockpot.