It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?

They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!

Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.