I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.

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

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.

Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?

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.