[F]or what in this world is worth doing that doesn't require a portion of one's body and soul?

That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself.

Seasoning one’s claims with self-irony and modesty, cultivating a tolerance for moral ambiguity, periodically practicing normative reticence, building up a resistance to the pleasure of purity, minding your own business, doing what you can to forget to wreak vengeance, defending negative freedom even if there is no such thing, and playing around are the best you can do. But that’s quite a lot.

How to value money;We learn to value money by learning to re-value our priorities.

How to value money ;"If the profit you made in a business deal or the money gifted you is small,just think of a particular small but useful need it can meet for you,then you will value the small money.

Her novels tend to be set in rural Mississippi, and critics have raved about her wonderful, lush prose and fearless subject matter.