Occupation: Author Birth: October 26, 1945 Death: March 4, 2016
I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarke….
(You) don't leave the chicken to watch the feed..
I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mea….
I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them..
I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as b….
There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue..
Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most..
Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks..
College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts..
Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to ….
Each divorce is the death of a small civilization..
Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself..
Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompani….
I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was….
Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage..
Humanity is best described as inhumanity..
She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a col….
The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life..
The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around f….
The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl..
Will his work survive? Alas, I worry that it will not. As an American liberal with impeccable credentials, I would like to say that political correct….