"I wasn't being critical of myself in the way I can normally be, and I was letting myself follow through with stuff. It was like a prolonged spontaneity."

“There is a mythic view of the South that's symbolized by the film "Gone With The Wind" that looks back fondly at slavery as a time when everything was happily in place - in place for whites.”

Source : "Confederate Flag Debate Symbolizes Rapid Change In The South". "All Things Considered" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. June 23, 2015.

“Strip those clowns down to nudity, shove the chrome where they doo doo be.”

“It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices away if they're interrupting and interfering with everyone else's pleasure at a movie, concert or other public event.”

“All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.”

“To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.”

“The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.”

“I wrote Her First American and I always say it took me eighteen years. It took me that long was because after about five years I stopped and wrote Lucinella. I got stuck; it was too hard to write. Lucinella felt like a lark. I wanted to write about the literary circle because it amused me, and I allowed myself to do what I wanted to do. It's just one of the things I'm allowed to do if I feel like it.”

“When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.