When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.

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

My life was going exactly where I wanted it to until the Devil showed up.

We cannot know the future. All we can do is face it bravely. We should take heed of those we love and respect. But in the end, we make every decision alone.

I need you like a blossom needs rain, like the winter ground needs spring-to soothe my parched soul.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

I can never give a 'yes' or a 'no.' I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable.

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

Within the perfect situation, not everything is perfect.

I say on the air all time, "if you take what I say as gospel, you're an idiot."

Today, capitalism faces a deep structural crisis.

Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it.