Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away - I rose right where I'd been knocked down. And then that's how you get to know yourself. You say, hmm, I can get up!

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.