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.

If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.

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

I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.

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

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

It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.