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.

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

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 have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.

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

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

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