Occupation: Author Birth: October 26, 1945 Death: March 4, 2016
Looking around, I thought the human species was in fine shape and tried to think of something more beautiful than women and couldn't come up with a t….
I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood..
I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure..
I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival..
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends..
... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying..
Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise..
Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides..
Writing has never been that simple for me..
I've always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious..
Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been..
Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry..
Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams..
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….
Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains..
I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it diff….
The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life..
In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake..
But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters..
... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me..
The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it..