The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.

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.

I choose to love more and more every day.

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.

Choosing to associate with positive, optimistic people will accelerate our positive growth.

When you look ahead and darkness is all you see, faith and determination will pull you through.

It is possible to renounce everything and attain enlightenment. But most people don't want to renounce; they wish to run away from responsibility and hard work.

When you eneter into samadhi and seek to make that magical walk between salvikalpa and nirvikalpa samadhi, it's necessary to focus your awareness not on being or nonbeing.

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

We are either kings or pawns of men

Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.

I prefer the "tackiest" person in the world to the stylish person who has no tact.