Honor is the presence of God in man.

Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.

There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.

A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

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

South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.