Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter''s Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind.

Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation to readers of all ages.

I do love competence in a man.

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

You can't move forward if you're still hanging on.

Why don't you get a haircut you look like a chrysanthemum.

I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

I think, I just always carry this kind of happy sense of being able to come into any situation and know that I don't exactly fit in, but I can make a place for myself.

In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self.

At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.

Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

Playing my drums is therapy.