As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie

They had buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

Build a tangled bank.

I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Everything's coming up roses - for me.

It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.

I always read the script, try to imagine myself in the role, then decide whether I have anything to give to the part. If you don't feel like that in the beginning, it is not going to go well.

Most of the supposed expressions of our feelings merely relieve us of them by drawing them out of us in an indistinct form that does not teach us to know them.

Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world.

I left him in his wheelchair, staring sadly into the fireplace. I wondered how many times he’d sat here, waiting for heroes that never came back.

I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.