The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.

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.

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

That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.

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

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

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