Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask.

My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.

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.