Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.
Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.
As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.
The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.
What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.
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.