My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.

As he had kissed her neck, she could not repress the feeling she was a lamb making time with a wolf.

Even people who've never seen a miracle can believe in miracles.

Country music has to evolve in order to survive.

It's good to be on the edge, but I have never followed my mind. I have always followed my heart. And it has yielded the right results.

For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.

Nixon wasn't really considered the president by the youth of America. He was considered to be a fraud and which he proved himself to be.

All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

Billy Carter, who asked his brother Jimmy, Do you think you could get me on the Gong Show? Never got a dinner!