Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.

I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.

... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.