Ive got many different voices - I have a Southern girl, an Irish girl. I have a gibberish language that youd have to decipher. I guess I try to never take myself too seriously.

Reading. I know it's not a very active activity, but it is in my head.

A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.

If you want to change anything or your surroundingChange your perception, it will change everything.

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

Resolve to be thyself and know that he who finds himself loses his misery.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.

The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.

Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still, real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.

I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.

If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.