Time heals all things but one: Time.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.

When Clemson players rub that rock and run down the hill, it's the most exciting 25 seconds in college football.

It's always fun to talk about jazz.

Effect should come first. Method second.

American Dream Is Under Assault. People that haven't been able to find a job in months and this growing sense in this country that this is the new normal, well we can't accept that.

The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.

All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.

Certainly the institutional church is ill. It's hemorrhaging young people at an astronomical rate.

I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.