The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.

What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.

Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.

Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.

The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.

Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.