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.

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

I wasn’t in the mood for a fight, but fights weren’t always conveniently scheduled. (Jessica)

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

Don't sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.

Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects

If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.

The assumption that the square of a unit vector is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic quantities are non-associative.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

My prodding me didn't elicit a reaction. His unseeing eyes stared straight through me. Which was odd. He'd seemed so sane huddled in Cookie's trunk.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

All in all, the framers would probably agree that it's better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can't be virtuous, they should at least be nervous.