We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.

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.

It is about time to see within us a real change and let it happen as we have made before we start.

Eternally the embers glow masterfully fueled by lovers passion.

I'm glad she's not faking affection. It's more honest than what her husband is doing, at least. Dislike is an emotion I can respect.

Is it a good idea or not?? Were we build for that or not??We know to much so let's remove us??

Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.

The foundation of beauty is the body.

Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways.

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality ... is where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum.