I'm holding up, Lord willing and the creek don't rise.

If it's not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it's a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.

Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky you can see the stars and still not see the light.

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to-equally important qualities in a friend. Essential in a travel companion.

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, "Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person," or "I remember what that day felt like."

I was born in Costa Rica and we moved to America where it was a whole new world for me.

Growing up in the business you have to grow up very fast - you do have a different type of childhood, that has its benefits and it has its drawbacks.

I'll always want to play and share my music with as many people as I can, but the emphasis is more on how do I find a happy place, what's my balance, what's my ideal.

No person writes to win awards.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.