Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.
Pat ConroyWe set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.
Pat ConroyThere's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.
Pat Conroy