Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.

There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.

In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice.

Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.

I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me, I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.