I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.

A small profit is better than a big loss.

Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better

One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world

I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for Serena.

Don't love anything that can be taken away.

We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times were until I left, but I guess that's the way of it

But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.

It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)

You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.

To write is to stand at the edge of a bottomless well, unafraid of falling in.

I'd rather have a part where you walk into a room and you leave. That's perfect for me.

Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.

My big goal in life is to prove people wrong.

Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue.

Life isn't measured in minutes, but in heartbeats.

This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its power the universal frame of things.

When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.

There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty.

The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today.