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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
I don't believe in happy families.
My mother raised me to be a writer.
Honor is the presence of God in man.
Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
Writing has never been that simple for me.
Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.
One does not know where love will take you.
South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
Families without songs are unhappy families.
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
A story untold could be the one that kills you.
Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
(You) don't leave the chicken to watch the feed.
Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.
Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.
My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.
Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.
Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.
I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one.
The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'
My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
All life connects ... Nothing happens that is meaningless.
There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous.
My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.
Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.
Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.
A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.
Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.
I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave
... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.
