Some things donโt mix. Some things donโt mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.
Pat ConroyI can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.
Pat ConroyHere is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.
Pat ConroyHe was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.
Pat ConroyWill his work survive? Alas, I worry that it will not. As an American liberal with impeccable credentials, I would like to say that political correctness is going to kill American liberalism if it is not fought to the death by people like me for the dangers it represents to free speech, to the exchange of ideas, to openheartedness, or to the spirit of art itself. Political correctness has a stranglehold on academia, on feminism, and on the media. It is a form of both madness and maggotry, and has already silenced the voices of writers like James Dicky across the land.
Pat Conroy