The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'

I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.

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.

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.

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

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

Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.