Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution

Participating in a sisterhood with other women is hugely important in my life and a source of joy.

We tried to shut him in a pyramid, but Mum spotted us.

No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they’ll see tomorrow.

Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.

I'm a very highly opinionated person, and so people assume I'm opining on everything; when I open my mouth and say something, it's an opinion.

The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one.