I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.

All life connects ... Nothing happens that is meaningless.

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.

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.