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

I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.

All right, then, I'd die for you. How about that? Don't you think somebody could die for love?

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.

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.

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