When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.

The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie

They had buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

In a classroom, when it’s silent, they’re thinking. You’ve got to give them time to think.

There is no such thing as a coincidence. You will feel this before you know it.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

After my mother's death I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.

That's because you loved me. You just didn't know it yet." "You didn't know it either. You were just as blind as me.

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

My portal to another world was fiction.

You can't fix stupid. You can't fix a neutered dog you can't fix a garage door and hey, you can't fix stupid

My style of leadership is to lead with the lightest touch that I possibly can.