I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.

Humanity is best described as inhumanity.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.

I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.

Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.

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

I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.