Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.
A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.
The very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself.
I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.
I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.