Uncle said, "If love would save him, wouldn't no harm come to him.

Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare it to. He hadn't even ever been out of the Delta.

We can learn so much from nature by simply observing how it works through a flower. The flower knows it is part of nature' we have forgotten that.

The Lord of Rags and Tatters.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relationship than have someone pretending they're completely in love with me.

I just go with what excites me.

Art's too long and life's too short.

And a thimble's worth of milky moon Can touch hearts larger than a thimble.

My thought is, if you're a book lover, you're going to enjoy winning a book even if it's not something you'd ordinarily pick up on your own. It's a chance to expand your horizons a little.

Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.

You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.