I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.

The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.

Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.