Didn't I say I'd always be your same stars? If you get to missing me, just look up.

That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness.

I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.

A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.

Perhaps the most important thing we can ever do in our lives is find a way to keep the wild-both the wild inside and the wild outside us-and tap into it.

I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.

Anger is its own excuse and its own reward.

I don't know if I would do sequels. I almost feel like when I'm done with them, they're going to have to find their own way.

Life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom.

I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.

I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.

Become disinterested in your pain and suffering. Only then can you make space for your longstanding joy.

We all do make mistakes…many times. What is commendable is that you try to find solutions. You just don’t give up.

If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all.

There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.

The business has changed greatly since my day.

It is a rose planted in your heart, and as it's thorns tear you, so does it thrive and flower