Never believe what you cannot doubt.

It is the distance between us that creates language.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

Death is the only mystery we all solve.

More dreams are destroyed in bed than are ever found there.

Procrustes was an editor.

It requires less skill to love than to be loved.

Those who have the habit of revelation lose the habit of thought.

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

Headlines pass; breadlines continue.

Men who like women rarely fall in love.

Only kind people seem really human.

Once you talk to your brain and emotions, thus how is going to respond.

Your life can only be as beautiful as you repeatedly interpret it to be.

When you argue for your limitations, Nature’s very kind it gives them to you. Just like when you desire to go beyond, Nature conspires to open ways for you.

In difficult times bring to mind my words and the sound of my voice. In that way, I shall always be present for you.

Elegant writers depict intricacy with simplicity.

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

You embraced what was already on the page, worked with it, massaged it.

That [Louisiana culture] was all very new to me. I read books and watched documentaries, just trying to immerse myself.

I'm a free soul who hates paying attention to things I am not interested in. Consequently, I have rarely been comfortable in the role of 'employee.'