Pat Conroy

"No one has the patent on human suffering. People hurt in different ways and for different reasons."

- Pat Conroy

"Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself."

- Pat Conroy

"Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide."

- Pat Conroy

"Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey."

- Pat Conroy

"Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk."

- Pat Conroy

"Like many men and women who make egregious and irretrievable mistakes with their own children, she would redeem herself by becoming the perfect grandmother."

- Pat Conroy

"A library could show you everything if you knew where to look."

- Pat Conroy