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

It’s funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened

If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.

Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and grasshoppers and beetles and potato bugs, ants . . . and put them in a jar and look at them. They have the sweetest little faces and the cutest expressions. After we'd looked at them all we wanted to, we'd put them in the yard and let them go on about their business.

No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.

There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.