Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.
Time moves funny and it's hard to pin down. Occasionally, time offers you a hundred opportunities to do the right thing. Sometimes, it gives you only one chance.
Over the years, my church gave me passage into a menagerie of exotic words unknown in the South: introit, offertory, liturgy, movable feast, the minor elevation, the lavabo, the apparition of Lourdes,...
Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.
Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.
Few people understood the exceptional role the civil rights movement had on the white boys and girls of the South. Bill Clinton would never have become who he was without the shining example of Martin...
I taught Leah how to tell where we were in the Campo by using her sense of smell. The south side was glazed with the smell of slain fish and no amount of water or broom-work could ever eliminate the t...
I meditated on the nature of friendship as I practiced the craft. My friends had always come from outside the mainstream. I had always been popular with the fifth column of my peers, those individuals...
I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
Love has no weapons; it has no fists. Love does not bruise, nor does it draw blood.
Looking around, I thought the human species was in fine shape and tried to think of something more beautiful than women and couldn't come up with a thing. The propagation of the species was a dance of...
It’s the southern way, Doctor. The southern way? she said. My mother’s immortal phrase. We laugh when the pain gets too much. We laugh when the pity of human life gets too . . . pitiful. We laugh when...
It both surprised and angered me that {they} had reached a consensus of agreement against me. The way I looked at the world, enemies criticized and friends affirmed.
I had the need to be the good master, but definitely the master, no matter what the cost.
I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.
These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.
The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.
Words are pretty, but anyone can talk. Pay attention to the people who perform.
Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to...
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