Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.

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.

This story is dedicated to all those who help, and all those who care.

And this, my friends, is how love f*cks up your life.

Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it.

Children can be disgusting, and often they can develop extraordinary talents, but I’m yet to meet any child who can stimulate his carotid arteries inside his ribcage.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

A baroque art-rock bubblegum broadcast on a frequency understood only by female teenagers and bred field mice.

Bible says the tree is known by his fruit. We can also say that the great man is known by his undreamed dreams!

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

The love religion is all that is written here.

Cowardice is no virtue.