“Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.”
- Pat Conroy
“Without music, life is a journey through a desert.”
“I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.”
“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.”
“Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.”
“It is the secret life that sustains me now, and as I reach the top of that bridge I say it in a whisper, I say it as a prayer, as regret, and as praise. I can't tell you why I do it or what it means, but each night when I drive toward my southern home and my southern life, I whisper these words: 'Lowenstein, Lowenstein.”
“It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.”
“A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.”
“The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.”
“The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.”
“Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.”
“When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.”