One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us

Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic.

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

Little mouse, you were so quick, so bright, so sweet, so full of life. And you still are everything you were then. None of it’s lost forever. All that promise, all that hope, that love and goodness—it’s still inside you. No one can take the gifts God gave you. Only you.