The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.

Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.

The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

He unscrewed the lid, set it on the dash, snorted from the bottle twice, banged the steering wheel, and said, 'You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.'

Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again.

I said shut up once already, with my mouth.

This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.

The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

Ask yourself this question both for current and possible future commitments: If I say yes to this, what am I saying no to?

Luck is believing you're lucky.

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

I very much believe in reforming the tax system.

To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.

To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls.

Just like the old adage--what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself--

Whatever path you follow push on till tomorrow, Love all, Serve all, and Create no sorrow.

Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."