College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.

Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.

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.

When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children