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 only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.

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

Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.

Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women

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.

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.