Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.

One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?

Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.

I stopped reading William Faulkner because it's hard work. I want to read a good writer, but I also want to read something where the pages are going to move along. That's what I want. It doesn't have to be a thriller or a mystery. Just something where I get caught up in the story.

Once again, I was reminded that Tally was the prettiest girl I'd ever met, and when she smiled at me my mind went blank. Once you've seen a pretty girl naked, you feel a certain attachment to her.

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a Communist. Or worse, a Liberal. Because I was from Memphis, I was a subversive intent on embarrassing Ford County.