I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.

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.

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.

This just makes me know and understand that there is no one reality that suits all

If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.

Before I got married, I never really watched TV. Now, my husband and I watch 'The Bachelor' together. I love 'The Soup' - that's where I get a lot of my pop culture - and 'Chelsea Lately.

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play.

I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That's science fiction; it isn't going to happen.

Intelligent coaching is sometimes no coaching.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.