Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.

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.

Support the free spirited nature of your Soul & the Soulful energy that exists within - all living Souls.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

A full mind is an empty bat.

Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.

Maintain your rage and enthusiasm for the campaign for the election now to be held and until polling day.

Tee your ball high...air offers less resistance than dirt.

The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.

What I used to do with a passion, foolishly and vainly imagining I would change the world for the better, I no longer tolerate in myself or anyone else. But draw, always draw - and WRITE.

Alas, there isn't a pain-free way to achieve your goals.