I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life.

Some things don’t mix. Some things don’t mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.

Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.

There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.