Every day is a new day with me. All holds are off. All contracts are forgotten.

Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.

I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.

To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.