The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.

Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick.

One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world he was in.

It's always the darkest just before the glorious dawn.

By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that the Bible backed her up in being a doormat.