I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.
Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.
The Dream Lover-what a bold, insightful, and enticing novel. And how vigorously Elizabeth Berg brings us the iconoclastic life of George Sand. Berg writes with such intimacy and compassion that I think she must have some shared ancestral DNA with Sand. I savored every page.
I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.
I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.
I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.
I would never want the responsibility of being the prettiest girl on screen; it's too much.
Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
It's dark already and I'm out here again, talking, telling the story to the quiet night.
Pleasure is a manifestation of self-re-creation. Pleasure is worship because it replenishes the soul.