A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what 'tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.

I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.

I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.

The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'

Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.

I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.

Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.

The problem is good has a limit, bad none!

Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living.

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world.

May the good God pardon all good men.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.

The Earth is moving right now.

Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!

Whether I'm down or whether things are great, I try to stay the same person all the time.