My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children..

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

Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry..

Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wou….

My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call..

Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am readin….

The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave.

I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told..

Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up..

Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides..

Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains..

I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell..

Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise..

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine..

From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the ….

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage..

I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mer….

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family..

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

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher..

My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide..