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

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.

The world’s most beautiful angel is love inside your soul.

Read no history--nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

You don't drown because you can't breathe. You drown because you try to breathe what is not breathable.

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

Asana done from the brain makes one heavy and done from the heart makes one light.

One essential ingredient for being an original in the day of copies is courageous vision.

God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.

Come with me while the moon is on the sea The night is young and so are we Dreams come true in Blue Hawaii And mine could all come true This magic night of nights with you

It's always great when a defense is able to create turnovers and score. That's something we missed last year. We'd get some turnovers, but we never scored points.

And you know there’s nothing like writing a song about someone who’s mean to you, and just makes your life miserable…and then winning a Grammy for it.