Occupation: Author Birth: October 26, 1945 Death: March 4, 2016
(You) don't leave the chicken to watch the feed..
Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses?.
Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea. Those t….
We wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That’s how art works. It’s never a jackrabbit, or a racehorse. It’s the ….
We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our inability to face the trut….
Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unb….
I can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promiss….
Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into you….
Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine..
It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we ….
If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable and p….
In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than tha….
She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself..
South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult..
College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts..
Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law..
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….
I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win..
I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them..
Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands..
One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family..