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.

In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.

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

Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.

I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.

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.

Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses?