There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory..

Without music, life is a journey through a desert..

There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored ….

Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Caroli….

Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, e….

To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush the great blue heron fro….

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..

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

I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole..

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood..

Honor is the presence of God in man..

Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth..

Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry..

American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hear….

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself..

…Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect tha….

I don't believe in happy families..

Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who pe….

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide..

You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life….

Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood..