It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.

The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

Regrets don't help anything.

You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.

As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.

History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.