Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.

Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.

Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed

The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.

What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.

Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.

As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.

Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.

The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.

Begin each day with a promise to self to be grateful, be kind .be authentic your day will meet your intent ~bns

Until you take your profession as passion, each and every activity looks as a headache

She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.

When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French classics.

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!

I always know more about the ending, even the aftermath to the ending, than I know about the beginning. And so there's a construction that works from back to front.

Atheists can be good people; they just have no objective way to judge the conduct of those who are not.

Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.

A fist in the face is all you deserve from love you've misplaced.

This book (the Bible) is not hard to understand. It's just hard to swallow.