Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.
Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.
My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
You can get all A's and still flunk life.
But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.
Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.