I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of as someone who writes about a picturesque local scene like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone With the Wind, something like that.

If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?

The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.

Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.