Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

He has also been noted for his sexually frank writing and the ambiguous nature of his own sexuality; Price did not write publicly about being gay until his third memoir Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home Coming Back publiReynolds Priced in 2009. Price is a favorite author of Bill Clinton who invited him to dinner at the White House early in his first term. Reynolds Price (February 1 1933 – January 20 2011) born Edward Reynolds Price was an American novelist poet dramatist essayist and the James B.

He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Duke Professor of English at Duke University.