A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.

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.

You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.

Humanity is best described as inhumanity.

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.