You Don't Have To Die In Order

My Mother Was A Very Literate Person Who Had Educated Herself. She Had An Exceptional Vocabulary.

If I Was In Love With Someone, I Would Get Their Picture Out Of The School Yearbook And Do Portraits. If I Was Curious About Sex, I Would Draw Pictures Of It. There Were No Books For Me To Look At. Then I Would Go Find My Father's Matches To Burn The Paper.

I've Had Some Tremendous Adventures, Good And Bad. It's Part Of The Novel, And A Novel Isn't Interesting If It Doesn't Have Some Good And Bad. And You Don't Know What Good Is If Bad Hasn't Been A Part Of Your Life

Memories And Magic Is What Christmas Is All About.

Its Taken Me A Long Time To Become The Person I Am, For All The Ugliness To Fall Away. The Rotten Flesh Is Gone, And The Seed Is There. I Can Touch That Now.