Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation to readers of all ages.

Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter''s Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind.

I do love competence in a man.

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

My life's misery and tragedy is my wealth and splendor.

Going to the seaside in winter is like seeing your partner first thing in the morning. Ugly, depressing and troubled by wind.

College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.

Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up...

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back.

Even the most humble role, I've always felt really wildly grateful to be getting anywhere in film business.

Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries.

Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.

None will be able to resist truth and love and sincerity. Are you sincere? Unselfish even unto death, and loving? Then fear not, not even death.