I wouldn’t give you sand if I met you on the beach. — Theodore Sturgeon

This country has music through its blood and bones like a disease, and a man cannot draw in a breath of air that isn’t a-thrum with it.

A man with talent eats, sweats, and cares for his children like any other. And if talent is a natural thing, remember that water is also, and fire, and wind; therefore flood and holocaust and hurricane are as natural as talent, and can consume and destroy you.

Love, Caroline, isn’t…that. Love is everything else that can be between a man and a woman, without that.