The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.

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 soul mate we marry can become an "ex, " but the soul mates we have in our children will be ours forever, until the end of our life.

Love Christ, and then the eternity in the heart will not be a great aching void, but will be filled with the everlasting life which Christ gives and is.

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.

Learn from the masses, and then teach them.

Step 1 in casting vision is to make sure your people love Jesus more than they love the vision you are casting.

My style is forever changing.

Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those.

It is past time for the U.S. government to fully fulfill our moral obligation to those who have fought for freedom and democracy.