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

Looking around, I thought the human species was in fine shape and tried to think of something more beautiful than women and couldn't come up with a thing. The propagation of the species was a dance of total joy.

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

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.

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

I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.

Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea. Those tears had been with me always.