I know something better is on the road for me.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Laugh as often as possible. You must. Because the world will offer you every reason to weep. So as often as possible, you laugh. That, I think, is part of the Great Love.
At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.
Forgive yourself - no one else will.
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.