Never lose your childish enthusiasm and things will come your way.

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

The Only Thing More Surprising Than the Chance She's Taking... Is Where It's Taking Her.

After owning a pool, I think the best way to enjoy the water is to have a friend who has a pool.

One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives you know nothing about. I could live in this town, so how is it that I've never been here before today?

I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.