I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our inability to face the truth.

Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.

I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one.

Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.

He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.

When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.