The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach.

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.

Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.

...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?

I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

She thought about her cousins in Oklahoma, which was odd, since she'd never spent much time with them. She didn't even know them very well. Now she was sorry about that.

I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like a conscience.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

This pick is going to be one where people look back and say that was the right guy.

No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine.

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something.

I am a very outspoken person, and if something makes me uncomfortable, you will know that it makes me uncomfortable, but that's as far as it goes.

There are conservatives in Hollywood who make good movies. They just don't make conservative movies because that's not what gets funded.

The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.

My base will show up in earthquakes.