The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.

“To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness…”

“Someone once told the Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor that it is more open-mi…”

“The formality that is left in the South now is quite dead and done for of cours…”

“I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.”