Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.

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.

If the intent is right, why waste time thinking about the consequences.

I want to kiss you. I want to so badly I can barely think of anything else. When you enter a room it’s my only thought, and it torments me night and day.

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

When I am willing to step into the realm of uncertainty and ambiguity, I open myself up to infinite possibilities.

I wouldn't advise [people] to be silent.

Pre-mature ejaculation. Let's talk about it. Premature ejaculation. That's a pretty fancy term for, "Ooooooh Oh no. This has never happened before."

There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride.

Through the history of our nation, Americans have always extended their hands in gestures of assistance.

The wine of this fleeting world caused your head to ache.

You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.