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

Anger is its own excuse and its own reward.

Perhaps the most important thing we can ever do in our lives is find a way to keep the wild-both the wild inside and the wild outside us-and tap into it.

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

I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read somewhere that the monk who invented it said, on first tasting it, 'It is like drinking stars'.

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.