I Was The Only Person In The

Know This. I Think You Could Be Special If You Only Thought There Was Anything Special About Yourself.

Like Everything Else, Love's Not Worth Much Without Some Action To Back It Up.

It's Impossible To Explain To A Yankee What `tacky' Is. They Simply Have No Word For It Up North, But My God, Do They Ever Need One.

But No One Walks Out Of His Family Without Reprisals: A Family Is Too Disciplined An Army To Offer Compassion To Its Deserters.

The Most Powerful Words In English Are 'tell Me A Story,' Words That Are Intimately Related To The Complexity Of History, The Origins Of Language, The Continuity Of The Species, The Taproot Of Our Humanity, Our Singularity, And Art Itself. I Was Born Into The Century In Which Novels Lost Their Stories, Poems Their Rhymes, Paintings Their Form, And Music Its Beauty, But That Does Not Mean I Had To Like That Trend Or Go Along With It. I Fight Against These Movements With Every Book I Write.