A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts..

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life..

Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air..

Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real..

I've always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious..

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal..

I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position..

Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk..

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself..

I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it..

Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most..

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends..

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….

A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater..

I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her.….

It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one..

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….

He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives..

But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters..

Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all..

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look..