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

Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.

Remember, if people talk about you behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead of them.

In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.

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

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.

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .