Green grass, green grandstands, green concession stalls, green paper cups, green folding chairs and visors for sale, green and white ropes, green-topped Georgia pines. If justice were poetic, Hubert Green would win it every year.

Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are embarrassed by the miracle, and crushed by remonstrance.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.

The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much fruit; there was something frantic in such fertility, a crying-out like that of children frantic to please.

Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.