She had awakened something in him that had slumbered far too long. Not only did he feel passion, he felt the return of hope.

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.

I long to look at my holiday season with eyes that see the Christ in Christmas.

Paste is a great music lover's resource. I tend to agree with their album reviews and find their interviews a bit more intriguing than those of other music magazines.

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

I never did acid, I am just so high anyway.

I like it when actors depart from the script to find their characters.

The world is safer without Saddam [Hussein]. Certainly the people of Iraq are better without Saddam.

I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer.

Find happiness in making others happy.

There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.

Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember that when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it.