[William Eggleston] sets forth what makes up our ordinary world. What is there, however strange, can be accepted without question; familiarity will be what overwhelms us.

To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.

it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.

Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.

The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought.

Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.