She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.

When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.