Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.

The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.

You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.

I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help I would be there for them.

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.

You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.