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

What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will occur. A story is a living thing; it moves and shifts

She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

She had awakened something in him that had slumbered far too long. Not only did he feel passion, he felt the return of hope.

Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.

To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush the great blue heron from its silent occupation, scatter marsh hens as we sink to our knees in mud, open an oyster with a pocketknife and feed it to you from the shell and say, 'There. That taste. That's the taste of my childhood.'