A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.

Always I try to write about people. People are interested in other people always.

A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.

I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.

I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?

Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.

There are two things every woman really wants: one, she wants to know that a man really loves her, and two, that he isn't going to stop.