No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you.

Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, "Que pasa, baby?

Death steals everything except our stories.

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the multifarious diversions of the world and the hurdles of their own vices. A professor had said that what saved writers is that they, like politicians, had the illusion of destiny that allowed them to overcome obstacles no matter how nominal their work.