I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.

Laughter nibbled at my lips like tiny fish in warm water.

I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.

Life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom.

Didn't I say I'd always be your same stars? If you get to missing me, just look up.

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

I think that sometimes the great changes in our lives, the ones that divide time, happen so deep down and silently that we don't even know when they occur......It frequently happens that the seasons of the greatest change are the times that feel the most tranquil, the most suspended, the most...timeless.