Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of birds and 'gators, of life in every puddle and pond and knothole and leaf. I Travel By Night

Maybe crazy is what they call anybody who's got magic in them after they're no longer a child.

I had always wondered what Reverend Lovoy meant when he talked about "grace." I understood it now. It was being able to give up something that it broke your heart to lose, and be happy about it.

I don't believe there can be any bad taste in creating a scene, only badwriting in handling it.

Even the most worthless thing in the world can be beautiful, it just takes the right touch

Have peace in your heart to find peace in the outer world.

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.

Be more than a father, be a dad. Be more than a figure, be an example.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

My sexuality is not a phase. I am who I am.

I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life. What's the point?

America cannot take another four years of Barack Obama, and that's what you're getting with Hillary Clinton.

Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.

Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!