Mrs. Charlotte Phelan's Guide to Husband-Hunting, Rule Number One: a pretty, petite girl should accentuate with makeup and good posture. A tall plain one, with a trust fund.

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.

Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.

...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?

I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

When you think and act opposite to love, you find yourself powerless and life becomes a frightening nightmare.

Beware of being only a writer.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

If anyone takes me seriously then they actually must have a problem .. Music is fun its not algebra.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings.

I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking.

Wisdom is at all times the least burdensome traveling pack.

I don’t think there’s any company that has reached $1 billion in revenue as fast as Xiaomi. In every conceivable benchmark, it’s almost unprecedented in terms of its speed of growth.